S Jaishankar Interview | Managing China, Russia & America: S Jaishankar Explains India's Strategy

EAM Dr S Jaishankar says, "...Engaging America has become more complicated. You all know why. Managing China has become complicated. Reassuring Russia became complicated because of the Ukraine war, the pressure on us to move away from Russia... Europe is one very important partner with whom we need to make more effort. And then when you come to the neighbourhood, the neighbours we have, they are smaller than us and every one of them is linked to us. Politics happens there too. Things go up and down. Sometimes they praise us, sometimes they criticise us. Because we are actually an issue in their politics as well..." "Last week there was a big cyclone in Sri Lanka, so within the same day we were there with help. If you look at COVID, ask our neighbours, where did your vaccine come from? It came from India. When the Ukraine war started and everyone's petrol and wheat and fertiliser supply was cut off, it came out of India..."