India’s diverse relationships in the West must be deployed in full measure to prevent a split in the Indo-Pacific coalition. Explain (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
· Delhi today is a part of a difficult conversation between the US, UK, France, Europe, and Australia points to the growing depth and diversity of India’s relations with different parts of the West.
· India’s contemporary diplomacy takes a nuanced view of internal dynamics in the West, and recognises the political agency of individual states, and develops wide-ranging relationships with the Western nations.
· The last few years have seen an intensification of India’s strategic engagement with France. For example, the government has overcome the earlier reluctance in Delhi to work with Paris on Indian Ocean security.
· India has made a determined effort to build a new partnership with Britain, which is the fifth-largest economy in the world, a leading financial hub, a technological powerhouse, and punches well above its weight in global affairs.
· The UK and its settler colonies have long been the preferred destination for the Indian diaspora (besides the US).
· Delhi is figuring out that the diaspora politics can be played both ways. The transformation of India’s relations with Australia has occurred despite entrenched scepticism in the foreign policy bureaucracy.
· There is enough room for the US, UK, France, and Europe to collaborate with Indo-Pacific partners in overlapping coalitions to develop high technology and defence-industrial cooperation in all the areas.
