{"id":205816,"date":"2022-09-14T18:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=205816"},"modified":"2022-09-14T18:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:05:43","slug":"for-india-the-buzzword-now-is-all-alignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/for-india-the-buzzword-now-is-all-alignment\/","title":{"rendered":"For India, the buzzword now is \u2018all-alignment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cFor India, the buzzword now is \u2018all-alignment\u2019<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0published in\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a014th<\/sup>\u00a0September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and\/or affecting India\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About India’s all alignment policy.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: In his book the India Way, External Affairs Minister offers a critique of India\u2019s traditional policy of \u201cnon-alignment\u201d.\u00a0 He distinguishes between the \u201coptimistic non-alignment\u201d of the past and the more realistic \u201cmultiple engagements of the future\u201d.<\/p>\n

How India’s participation in the SCO summit is a clear signal of India’s all-alignment policy?<\/h5>\n

Next year, India will host the SCO summit, and is expected to invite all members \u2014 this includes the Chinese President and Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister. India’s engagement with the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan highlights India balances various blocs. For instance,<\/p>\n

a)<\/strong> India is a member of SCO and BRICS and also a member of Quad, groups such as the I2U2 (India-Israel-U.S.-UAE), and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF).<\/p>\n

b)<\/strong> India joining the Russian-led \u2018Vostok\u2019 Army Exercises along with China, and plans to host SCO-RATS counterterror exercises. On the other hand, the Indian Air Force took part in the Australian \u2018Pitch Black\u2019 exercises, and the Indian Army is planning exercises with the U.S. (Yudh Abhyas).<\/p>\n

This shows India is the only country that would form the intersection, a part of all of those groupings.<\/p>\n

How does India’s all alignment policy function within the SCO grouping and what India can do in the upcoming SCO Summit?<\/h5>\n

India’s ties with Russia<\/strong>: India has refused to heed pleas from the U.S. and Europe to endorse resolutions critical of Russia at the United Nations. India often abstained from voting on the Ukraine crisis. Further, India’s imports of Russian oil jumped from 0.66 million tonnes in the first quarter to 8.42 million tonnes in the second this year.<\/p>\n

In the recent Eastern Economic Forum<\/a> <\/strong>meeting, India outlines it wants to further strengthen energy ties, building on the $16 billion investment Indian public sector units already have in Russian oil and gas fields.<\/p>\n

India’s ties with China<\/strong>: The two leaders of India and China met 18 times between 2014-2019. But have not spoken directly once since the standoff that began in April 2020 between the Indian Army and the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA). India-China bilateral ties have come to a virtual standstill on most fronts, with the exception of trade.<\/p>\n

During the Doklam conflict, it was a \u201cbrush by\u201d meeting between two leaders at the G-20 summit that led to the \u201cbreakthrough\u201d in talks. So a similar can happen in the upcoming SCO summit or the G20 Summit.<\/p>\n

India’s engagement with Iran<\/strong>: The SCO meeting is expected to pitch the Chabahar port terminal India is developing as an important route for trade to Central Asia and Russia.<\/p>\n

Further, Iran has asked for India’s support with \u201cabove ground\u201d equipment and parts for its plans to extend the rail line from the Afghan border outpost to Turkmenistan, the shortest possible route for India. This is in line with India’s plan to build a connectivity framework that counters the China-Pakistan-Economic Corridor from Gwadar.<\/p>\n

India’s engagement with Pakistan<\/strong>:\u00a0 The decision by the Pakistan government in 2019 that no trade with India is possible without a reversal of India\u2019s Article 370 moves in Jammu and Kashmir has ended formal communication between both the countries.<\/p>\n

With Pakistan reeling from massive floods, an economic crisis, and growing worries of an unstable Afghanistan Pakistan might look for a way to hold a conversation with India.<\/p>\n

All this shows India fights for its unique brand of multi-alignment or \u201call-alignment\u201d with partners worldwide, without having to choose between them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cFor India, the buzzword now is \u2018all-alignment\u2019\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0on\u00a014th\u00a0September 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and\/or affecting India\u2019s interests. Relevance: About India’s all alignment policy. News: In his book the India Way, External Affairs Minister offers a critique of India\u2019s… Continue reading For India, the buzzword now is \u2018all-alignment\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"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":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-205816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205816","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\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}