How India is Becoming the Switzerland of Asia

How India is Becoming the Switzerland of Asia

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Video by:
Oliver Franke
Research & Script:
Emanuele Martinelli, Oliver Franke
Edit & Animations:
Ahmed Jasim, Mustafa Jasim

[afkass]

India is the India of Asia. Not Switzerland, not anything else. India is unique in its approach and we'd like to keep it that way.

[superTowel]

I think as an Indian, India's strategy in geo political stage is pretty reflective of what most Indians want. "Live and let live". We don't wanna be so weak that others can kick us around, we also don't wanna invade, or take over others. We just wanna live and prosper.

[aliaunsyed]

Interesting take but hard to agree that India is anything like Switzerland. India is way too influential, way more strategic, and way more of a military power to be considered neutral in the way the Swiss are. That along with two nuclear armed rivals next door, it's hardly a case for neutrality. India's non-alignment is a well crafted strategy that has always been drafted with one eye on countering those same two threats if or when they find themselves in that position. India's military also take a way more aggressive approach against rivals as seen in their recent raids on both Pakistani and Chinese administered territories. As a Pakistani, I feel like India's strategy is way more effective and intelligent than the Swiss, where they have truly cemented themselves as a true global power politically, economically, and militarily very intentionally and skillfully. Comparing it to Swiss neutrality almost undermines that a little bit.

[axay]

I don’t think India is trying to become Switzerland of Asia, it’s just trying to mind its own business. The difference stems from inherent nature of response to a situation. If another nation is growing economically- India sees it as a competitor and not as a threat. For a long time economic progress of both Pakistan and Bangladesh was better than India. India never tried to destabilise them but rather compete with them and in certain areas even collaborated with them. India is still trying to compete economically with China which reflects in their government policies. Therefore there is room for friendship between competitors not between enemies.

[rajinvincible]

05:46 Narendra Modi is not the president of India. He is the Prime Minister.

[FloriTravels]

India is a country every man should visit once in their lifetime, greetings from Thailand🇹🇭
I'm riding the length of Thailand, everyone is invited to my channel!:)

[overlord_actual]

You failed to mention the strategic importance of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and lakshadweep islands.

[rohitmishra]

The fun fact is that except China, other 4 country has open support for India to join security council. But it's China that keeps vetoing

[kassap]

Wow, a powerful , beautiful neutral and a developed country our next door, really proud of them, from Srilanka .

[hasideunatimi]

As a brother neighbor country Nepal 🇳🇵 we are having strong history of sharing religious beliefs 🕉️, sharing economy, sharing river which flows down from Mount Everest (Nepal). Summing it in local language we call it (Roti- Beti) relationship.
Talking about personal relation me being Nepalese my half of the family is Indian it feels great to visit them during childhood I never new we are from different country! Hopefully, cause of two county relationship our coming generation would also feel same.
Love from Nepal 🇳🇵 to India 🇮🇳.

Jai Sambho!!

[siddhantturlapati]

Just a quick correction - not every country that is a member of the UNSC gets the right to veto, only the permanent members (US, UK, China, Russia and France) get the right to veto not the temporary members. Loved the video though :)

[U.K.N]

This video reminded me, at the beginning of the ukrainian war, i saw a few Americans critisizing india for buying a couple airplanes from russia, but an indian said that they do what’s good for india and nothing else

[kc]

8:19 what makes it even better is that India also owns the island chain immediately to the right of the words ‘Indian ocean’ which aren’t highlighted in this video. Those are the Lakshadweep Islands

[bobjohnson]

I'm a fan of what India's doing out there it's nice to have a cool head in that area. When India says something people believe it. It may have it's own personal geopolitical woes but the strategy they're adopting here really in the long term is the best way to lift up those woes. It's extra juicy when former and relatively recently independent temporary British colonies start to excel as a man of the US, which was once a British colony.

[anandgoray]

BRICS and G7 are fundamentally different. G7 focuses on Military whereas BRICS is for sustainable growth.

[RealPlatoishere]

Being one of the top militaries in the world and one of the largest economy in the world, Being neutral takes a lot of courage and diplomatic power, basically u are witnessing top class diplomacy of this century

[mr.curious]

People are so anti-India proved by this comment section . No one wants India to grow, when others are pulling you down, understand that u are doing something good 😊. India is not the best, but it's an emerging power. That may be closing a lot of business of others, i can understand. And there are some bots also in this comment section.

[amanverma]

If God haven't gifted us neighbour like Pakistan and china then we would be a pacifist nation

[Sanatani_Sherni]

_"Most powerful countries will get their way by any means necessary"_ is one of the most accurate sentences said in history. 🇮🇳🚩

[KUMARUJJWALSINGH]

One of the most balanced geopolitical narratives about India that I've seen from an observer based abroad.