Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his tenure by pledging to take India to new heights by declaring it a power of South Asia but has ended into becoming a subservient to China with weak economy .
The informal summits undertaken by prime Minister Narendra Modi at Wuhan with Chinese president Xi Jinping and at Sochi with Russian President Vladimir Putin has been necessitated due to the rapidly changing global equations involving Korean Peninsula,China's rise ,China's militarisation of the South China Sea , US-China economic estrangement and US withdrawing from the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Modi's decision of making India a defence and logistic ally of United States has not brought any dividends rather President Donald Trump has reiterated its intention to undo the existing policy enabling spouses of H-1B workers to get work permits.Trump's announcement of US unilaterally quitting the Iran deal also presented tough walk ahead for India.
Modi has realized how he has wasted his four years travelling across the world with inconsistent and random foreign policy initiatives as Americans have always kept their economic , strategic and military interests paramount even during their bilateral relations.
In his "America First" national security strategy, President Trump has explicitly named China and Russia as "competition" that seek to "challenge American power, influence, and interests"and attempt "to erode American security and prosperity".
Last year, US President Donald Trump had signed a law, ‘The Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act’, CAATSA, imposing sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea.China has invested heavily in the economies of Pakistan,Nepal,Bangladesh,Myanmarand Sri Lanka to the tune of more than $150 billion thus encircling India and it has huge trade
volumes with US and exports rebounded more strongly in April and outperformed other Asian trade -reliant economies amid a heated trade dispute with the United States.But Modi is again misguiding people of India as no country in South Asia is interested to build close ties with New Delhi.
The divergence in policy and ideas can be seen on the statements issued by India and China .There was no convergence between the two sides on terrorism as China made a mention of the word 'terrorism' only once and that too in a generalised form while India elaborately describes about terrorism in Pakistan .
After displaying muscle power at Doklam,India sought mutual trust and ‘predictability and effectiveness in the management of border affairs but China justifies its actions by terming that it will never compromise on defending its sovereignty.Indian statement stressed that the trade should be balanced, sustainable and that we should take advantage of the complementaries between the two economies to enhance the trade and investment.
The word 'balance' was conspicuously absent in Chinese document ."India’s trade deficit with China increased more than two-fold (219 percent) from $16 billion in 2007-08 to $51 billion in 2016-17, according to commerce ministry data.
China has begun large-scale mining operation in Lhunze county under its control adjacent to Arunchal Pradesh where a huge trove of gold,silver and other precious minerals has been found.Beijing has defended mining operations, saying that the area belongs to it India's weak economy due to faulty decisions of Modi government has emboldened China who are constructing "permanent hangers" in upgraded airfields that include Hotan, Hoping and Lhasa -in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) that face India. China has 14 airbases in the Lanzhou and Chengdu regions, opposite to Ladakh,Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.
It is right to mention that it's the economy stupid that proclaim a country super power and China has penetrated the global market with Xi Jinping's OBOR initiative and has huge investments in different sectors like in digital,telecom,power,engineering also Indian economy Modi has realised that time has slipped away and he cannot build strong economy through his personalised approach in the present scenario where only economic ties with rivals and other competitors can flourish Indian economy.
As India knitted close ties with the United States under Modi,Russia has stepped up its strategic ties with India’s arch-rival Pakistan .Russia in December 2017 also signed the joint declaration of the six-nation conference asking for resolution of Kashmir issue under the UNSC resolution.The S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft missile systems is required by India to counter the emerging air threats. AS major defence purchases from Russia would attract sanctions and delivery of the systems is to begin within 54 months from the date of signing.
Modi is in search of good slogans for 2019 Lok Saha elections, in these 4 years Modi has described his critics as doomsayers, blamed the previous Congress government for India's economic ills, painted himself as an outsider".He gets nervous on being criticised and showcases himself as victim.
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