Indo-Pacific nations are realising that forming balancing coalitions will be their best bet in dealing with Beijing, says Asia Society Policy Institute researcher Ved Shinde.
NEW DELHI: There are phases in international relations when diplomacy between some countries is unfortunately reduced to protocol and alcohol. Such phases are never entirely intentional. No well-meaning government conducts diplomacy just for the sake of talking.
Diplomacy, in its quintessential sense, is the adjustment of differences through dialogue. Diplomacy works when a general equilibrium prevails in the international order. Put loosely, compromise is imminently possible when political leaders across countries intuitively understand and accept their place in the pecking order.NEW PECKING ORDER IN ASIA
China’s dizzying growth was in the West’s interests, so the story went. We owe a great deal to President Xi Jinping for. Prosperity begets power. Power protects prosperity.
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