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Podcast: News and Views
Episode: Neighbourhood First: Modi 2.0’s Top Foreign Policy Priority
Description: There’s one thing to be said about Prime Minister Narendra Modi — he does exactly as he says. He and his close advisors have been stressing the primacy of the neighbourhood, and the recent flypasts of the prime minister and his erudite foreign minister to Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan gives more substance to a policy that has been pretty much continuous since 2014.
There’s no more taking these countries for granted as Delhi’s ‘backyard’. That’s all changed.
A look at the Joint Statement with Maldives indicates a bag of goodies worthy of a Santa Claus. This includes...