India may soon evaluate its options vis-a-vis China in the wake of Friday’s failed bid to secure membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and the resulting embarrassment, with indications that it ma
India may soon evaluate its options vis-a-vis China in the wake of Friday’s failed bid to secure membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and the resulting embarrassment, with indications that it may not be business as usual anymore with its giant eastern neighbour.
Questions are also being raised domestically on the wisdom of India following an “immediacy” policy at Seoul and going all out knowing fully well that China was opposed to Indian entry but hoping that the Chinese would crumble under American and French pressure. But the Chinese leadership — which is annoyed by India cosying up to the US and carrying out joint exercises with the Americans and Japanese navies in the Asia-Pacific, not to mention close strategic ties with the Vietnamese — was in no mood to oblige New Delhi despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi making a last-ditch effort to persuade Chinese President Xi Jinping.
