China an ‘unavoidable’ focus for New Delhi, foreign policy as poll talking point

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With the world’s biggest election starting this week, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , explains how India’s foreign policy and its role in the world has become a talking point among its voters. “Mr. Modi, a strongman who controls every lever of power in India and has expanded its relations with many other countries, appears uncharacteristically powerless in the face of the rupture with China,” it says while mentioning that he is seeking a third term on the “overarching narrative” of making India a major global power. New Delhi: From leaders of two nations sitting on a swing to the...