India’s foreign minister on ties with America, China and Russia
In a rare interview Subrahmanyam Jaishankar makes no apologies for self-interested diplomacy
In a recent interview with this paper, Henry Kissinger, a former American secretary of state, gave a troubling assessment of a world in which old powers are fading, new ones are rising and superpower conflict threatens. Yet he offered, alongside few other hopeful notes, this accolade: “I have very high regard for the way the Indians conduct their foreign policy now, because it shows balance.”
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Non-alignment non-negotiable”
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