Modi doesnt want to return to the past

April 06, 2017 09:54

"Modi likes to praise the virtues of ancient Hindu civilization (sometimes to comic excess). But, like Xi, he isn't interested in a past in which the West dominated the world. He wants to build a future in which Asia does. And this, I suspect, isn't at all what someone like Le Pen has in mind when she speaks of "a new world emerging.' Talk of a global turn toward conservatism is all very well. But let's not exaggerate what it means for international relations."

Mihir Sharma on why Modi is neither Trump or Putin. Do read

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