{"id":206256,"date":"2022-09-16T20:15:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=206256"},"modified":"2022-09-16T20:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:47:29","slug":"a-civilisational-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-civilisational-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Civilisational Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cA Civilisational Diplomacy\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Indian Express <\/strong>on <strong>16th September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- International Relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; About Foreign policy of India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; The article explains the foreign policy choices of India and\u00a0 changing Chinese opinion about our foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>PM Modi and President Xi Jinping are meeting for the first time in the post-Covid world, at the 22nd Council of Heads of State of the SCO<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the changing Chinese opinion about foreign policy of India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The visible change in Chinese public opinion about India is due to<strong> India\u2019s principled stand<\/strong> on the Ukraine crisis and assertion of an <strong>independent foreign policy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese strategic community views Modi as being politically astute in pursuing India\u2019s national interests by <strong>balancing relations with major powers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese social media voices draw attention to India using media platforms alongside <strong>official diplomacy<\/strong> to convey Indian viewpoints, and expose the fallacy in the Western arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Many in China also believe that Beijing should have pursued a similar<strong> balanced approach<\/strong> to the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s stance on Ukraine has generated a positive mood in China that may help resolve the on-going disputes between India and China.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the foreign policy choices of present government?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>As per present government policies, both Russia and China are <strong>civilisational states<\/strong>.Complete weakening of either of them may have implications for India&#8217;s external security.This view stems from the weakening <strong>Asian civilisation<\/strong> against western dominance.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the implications of these foreign policy choices?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Due to\u00a0 foreign policy choices, India can have good relations with both Russia and China despite both having different world outlook.<\/p>\n<p>This outlook has enabled India to have a <strong>prudent diplomatic approach<\/strong>.It denies the charges of India going very close to western powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cA Civilisational Diplomacy\u201d published in The Indian Express on 16th September 2022. Syllabus: GS2- International Relations. Relevance&#8211; About Foreign policy of India. News&#8211; The article explains the foreign policy choices of India and\u00a0 changing Chinese opinion about our foreign policy. PM Modi and President Xi Jinping are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-civilisational-diplomacy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Civilisational Diplomacy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"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":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-206256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704921766},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206256","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}