Vladimir Putin is perhaps the only world leader today who can pick up the phone and talk to Xi Jinping. Delhi couldn't have chosen a better time to reach out to Moscow.
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Jaishankar is going to Russia to do usual bureaucrats fuck up thing called talks and talks.
I see Chinese in the meantime doing their usual maneuver so that when PM and general secretary talks are done, Chinese occupy commanding heights.
So, one has to keep an eye on Chinese during these times.
And also one has to show russia now it's place that it has to remain silent.
If Chinese move India during Jaishankar trip India then must double move.
Message will be then sent to both Russia and China.
In the time of a crisis of the magnitude such as the current one, if Indian Foreign office has ever functioned magnificently, it is this .... it is this.
In the last three months India has been able to mobilise the world opinion in its favour, obtained diplomatic support from many, so far has managed to handle Pakistan and Bangladesh in neighbourhood and piece together ASEAN support. Many countries have followed the Indian initiatives of taking economic punitive actions against China. China more or less has been isolated on the issue of its aggressive behaviour internationally,
Except for the fiasco of "Na koi Ghussa Hai Na koi Aaya Hai " for which, I think someone else is primarily responsible, Foreign policy has been handled very well and successfully.
For a good change, the Foreign Office has not meddled with OperationalIssues of the Armed Forces vis a vis China which MEA hitherto considered as their monopoly but has been a helping hand.
MEA can not and must not be Warmongers like Chinese Wolf Warriors - uncouth and uncivilised, offensive and insulting, pushy and arrogant. So far MEA has been conducting diplomacy quite well.
Some of the statements emanating from J Jayshankar are Indian Foreign policy statements and not necessarily of his own. Some people have taken umbrage to his statements on alliance and international cooperation issues. But as time is passing, one can feel the gravity of those policy enunciations.
MEA under Shri J Jayshankar is doing very well, Let us not needle them on groundless reasons. Some people are trying to harm and dishonour our well-done organisations for their own reasons. Let us unwittingly be not part of them.
. It's Bansuri and Sudarshan now. IA excels at both.
