Last week frenemy fire from the United States plumbed new lows. The gloves came off as it were, when in a media interview, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the US needed to “fix India”.
It put India’s foreign policy under fresh scrutiny as it tries to undo the damage of President Donald Trump’s presidency. This is because India’s audacious economic ambitions depend on foreign policy resolving these kinds of geopolitical hurdles.
Can Indian foreign policy achieve the impossible? If not, will India get stuck in the middle-income trap?
To answer all this and more StratNewsGlobal.Tech spoke Ambassador Arun Singh, an accomplished diplomat who understands the intersection of economics and foreign policy on Capital Calculus. Among his many postings, he also served as India’s Ambassador to the United States.
Anil Padmanabhan has been a journalist for the last 36 years. He has worked in various capacities in several publications including Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Press Trust of India, Business Standard, Mint and was based in New York for India Today. He was a Nieman Fellow in 2001. He tweets at @capitalcalculus.
