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‘India’s role key in a bi-polar world’

KOCHI: The world is looking towards a bi-polar world with the United States and China as leading powers and India’s role in this world should be decided by its interests, said Prof. M.D. Nalapat, UNESCO Peace Chair at the Manipal University.

He was making a presentation on ‘India-U.S. Ties and China’ at the ongoing conference on the India-China-USA Triangle in Kochi, convened by the Center For National Renaissance New Delhi.

He said that India had its own positions on issues like Iran, Myanmar, the nuclear deal with the United States and a seat in the Security Council. His presentation said the international situation was characterised by China posing a challenge to the geopolitical supremacy of the U.S. “India is the ‘swing’ state that has the potential to tilt the geo-strategic balance towards one or the other side,” said his paper made available at the conference.

Both the United States and China would try to lock New Delhi into a position most advantageous to itself.

Prof. Sun Zhe of Tsinghua University, China, who made his presentation on ‘Democracy and the U.S.-China Relations’ said that the United States needed to work out a positive and practical approach to the democratic transition of China.

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