{"id":31945,"date":"2018-10-29T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31945"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:24:37","slug":"india-needs-to-focus-eastword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-needs-to-focus-eastword\/","title":{"rendered":"India needs to focus eastword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-needs-to-focus-eastward\/article22458036.ece\"><strong>India needs to focus eastword<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India has \u201crealised\u201d that its future lies in Asia, said BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, making a distinction from the \u201cAmerican way\u201d of conducting foreign policy, in comments seen as a rare departure from the government\u2019s traditionally close ties with the U.S. and Western allies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018American Way\u2019 will no longer be at work in region, says BJP leader Ram Madhav<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India has to make cultural and civilisational linkages an important part of its\u00a0diplomacy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategic shift<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c[India] has to completely reorient its strategic mindset. Strategic shift is needed from Westward to Eastward Thinking; from Land-based thinking to Ocean-centric thinking,\u201d he added.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Madhav said the \u201cglobal power axis\u201d had now moved from the Pacific-Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific with almost half of the world\u2019s population, half the container traffic, 40% of off-shore oil reserves, and most of the world\u2019s defence spending coming from the Asian region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A Neo-Marshall Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The BJP leader also called for support for India\u2019s \u201cproactive role in the region\u201d, saying New Delhi would not be a \u201cspectator\u201d as China pushed its Belt and Road initiative forward<\/li>\n<li>He called the project a \u201cNeo-Marshall plan\u201d in a veiled reference to the carving up of post-war Europe as akin to Chinese infrastructure projects in Asia and Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India needs to focus eastword Context India has \u201crealised\u201d that its future lies in Asia, said BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, making a distinction from the \u201cAmerican way\u201d of conducting foreign policy, in comments seen as a rare departure from the government\u2019s traditionally close ties with the U.S. and Western allies. \u2018American Way\u2019 will no&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-needs-to-focus-eastword\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India needs to focus eastword<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704788746},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31945","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}