Rude rise of China, declining America & three options for India beyond strategic ambiguity

#CutTheClutter #IndiaChina
With US gradually getting away from its traditional global role and China being more assertive - the world faces structural challenges now. In episode 505 of ThePrint's #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta talks about what is the state of the world from India's perspective now and what should be India's strategy to deal with multiple crises it's facing, especially China.

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[rohithreddy]

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[ProudHinduu]

Be nicer to Pakistan... what? Really? Has history not taught us any lesson on trusting Pakistan?

[iLuciferXx]

How many of u checked the upload time just to be sure?

[pspsdan]

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[joputhiyaparambil]

China came into this position by the hard work of 35 years. There is no shortcuts for india too. We need a good vision and strategy for next few decades to counter China.

Gimmicks won't work.

[rishabhmittal]

Sir, PM had tried to strengthen the relationship in initial years & we all know, what happened next. Also, not to forget, how our news channels reacted on that and mock till today including urs and aligned one.

[RahulYadav]

Opened YouTube and was surprised to see CTC uploaded so early. Thankyou Print.

[jaisongeorge]

Hi Shekar, on your point of appeasing one of the fronts, one aspect you missed to mention is Pakistan is strategically sold to China and hence the appeasement ploy may backfire.

[aksalunke]

Didnt like this ctc, everyone knows pakistan is now a vassal state of china. You wish to ammend ties but we already tried that in vajpayee and mms era, we got 26/11 in return.
Richard haas speaks from his nationalist point of view, reality is different.
In my opinion, wait for the US elections to get over and see how things change from there before we choose our allies which likely is the quad.

[farooqmuh]

Fully agree that internal stability is the best choice for India. I think every powerful country did the same.

[Nintendo_fanboy]

"Xi Jinping, president for life" is the scariest thing I've ever heard.

[rajanaravind]

I would agree with SG hands down on his observation on India's duality in taking sides between USA and Russia, of course SG is right in his saying that we inherited that non-decisiveness and this got deeply implanted in our DNA. I suppose, time has come for the tough decision and in this changed global order, its infact inevitable, and not advisable to be an odd man out.
SG suggestion on strategic appeasement of Pakistan is something I could not believe that comes from a person like SG's mouth, who does know Pakistan very well. Neither, Pakistan would come to terms with India, let anything be the proposition of appeasement nor China would allow anything of that kind happen.
SG has said in past from Vajpayee to Manmohan Singh tried to bring peace with Pakistan and miserable failed and that is why Modi took a different approach to please and affable with China which again failed miserably and backfired. If you notice, every time we appease Pakistan we ended up in a war and now when we tried to be-friend with China which has brought war to our door front. So, its clear that our neighbours Pakistan and China does not understand friendly language, we need to speak with them in a different language that they understand.

[rahulgupta]

If u don't have U don't have Allies

[reecmz]

Gupta ji seems to suggest that even if india looses its 1000s of years old traditional values, culture and history, it should be looked nice in-front of others. This is a classical communist interpretation of world affairs.

[anant]

Very nice timing.
Dinner and CTC!!
Nighttime meal couldn't get any better.
😇

[cta]

There is something very sophisticated about the way Mr. Gupta deals with the news in CTC. Please Don't go away. This will turn out to be a classic.

[rajkumarlakkimsetty]

Isn’t Pakistan already under Chinese thumb in a way? So I don’t see how settling with Pakistan would be better

[pardeeptandon]

NON- Alignment is the only option India has today. China followed this policy until it became economically strong. Today it is challenging the sole superpower. We should learn from china and follow the Nehruvian policy of Non-alignment until we become ATTAM NIRBHAR.

[Exceltrainingvideos]

Top notch clarity this time. Thanks for sharing!

[anilvashist]

I like SG 75% of the time, but I'm so so so happy that he is NOT India's foreign minister. And even more happy that PM Modi does NOT take any advise from SG.
We all have our blind spots and SGs blind spot is Narendra Modi.