Taking the Pragmatic Route

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India needs to build its capacities when global political and economic rules are being rewritten
Taking the Pragmatic Route
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar 

THE THEME OF India’s options in a turbulent world dominated the address by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar when he addressed the conclave on October 5. His remarks had a thematic overlap with what Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said earlier. While Sitharaman couched the issue in terms of making India resilient, Jaishankar described this as boosting India’s comprehensive national power. The issues of multipolarity, India-US relations and alternative groupings to further multipolarity flowed from his remarks and his responses to various questions in the session.