{"id":170718,"date":"2022-02-24T21:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=170718"},"modified":"2022-02-24T21:14:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:44:36","slug":"new-delhis-stance-on-europes-crisis-is-just-about-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-delhis-stance-on-europes-crisis-is-just-about-right\/","title":{"rendered":"New Delhi\u2019s stance on Europe\u2019s crisis is just about right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News: <\/strong>At the Munich Security Conference recently, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar was asked why India keeps pointing fingers at China\u2019s violation of the sovereignty of smaller states while not condemning Russia\u2019s incursions into Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Western officials have sought to rope India in as part of a unified worldwide opposition to Russia\u2019s incursions into Ukraine.\u00a0But India abstained on a Western resolution in the UN Security Council that intended to apply pressure on Russia.<\/p>\n

This article illustrates the reasons given by external affairs minister S. Jaishankar for the question asked with respect to India\u2019s differential approach towards China and Russia.<\/p>\n

What were the reasons given by external affairs minister S. Jaishankar that justified India\u2019s stand against Russia?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Firstly,<\/strong> Jaishankar\u2019s response was that India did not see the tussle between Russia and the West in Europe as equal to China\u2019s hegemonic push for dominance in Asia. The reasons are,<\/p>\n

– Russia\u2019s economy is tiny compared to that of China. Therefore, Russia cannot sustain a costly military campaign of conquest of all of Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

– Russia\u2019s annual defence budget averages about $60 billion, which is very small compared to China\u2019s defence expenditure of over $250 billion per year.<\/p>\n

– Moreover, Russia can\u2019t overturn the fundamental balance of power in Europe due to the presence of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops and hi-tech weaponry placed all along its western land borders.<\/p>\n

Secondly,<\/strong> for India, there are \u201clegitimate security interests of all countries\u201d, implying that Ukraine should not be invaded. But Russian grievances about NATO\u2019s eastward expansion must also be addressed.<\/p>\n

Thirdly,<\/strong> Jaishankar criticized the selective application of universal values and principles when it suits the interests of powerful countries. For example, the US has condoned and shielded its allies that committed war crimes. The heart-wrenching human tragedy of the war in Yemen is a recent illustration of Washington supporting, financing and arming partners in Latin America, West Asia, Africa and other parts of Asia despite their murderous conduct.<\/p>\n

Fourthly, <\/strong>he stated that, given India\u2019s geopolitical location in the Indo-Pacific, its chief focus is on deterring Chinese expansionism. Whereas, the confrontation over Ukraine\u2019s possible NATO tilt does not have a significant impact on India\u2019s national security or power-projection goals.<\/p>\n

Fifthly, <\/strong>India needs Russian weaponry and cooperation to \u2018internally balance\u2019 Chinese influence in Eurasia.<\/p>\n

Finally,<\/strong> India sees the diversion of fighting Russia over Ukraine as a neglect of the reality that there is only one great power other than the US today, China, which seems keen on global supremacy.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201cNew Delhi\u2019s stance on Europe\u2019s crisis is just about right\u201d<\/strong> published in Livemint <\/strong>on 24th<\/sup> Feb<\/strong> 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: At the Munich Security Conference recently, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar was asked why India keeps pointing fingers at China\u2019s violation of the sovereignty of smaller states while not condemning Russia\u2019s incursions into Ukraine. Western officials have sought to rope India in as part of a unified worldwide opposition to Russia\u2019s incursions into Ukraine.\u00a0But… Continue reading New Delhi\u2019s stance on Europe\u2019s crisis is just about right<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10501],"class_list":["post-170718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700783082,"cached_date":1704811604},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}