The Indian Government Must Get Its Quad Fundas Right |
What had been envisaged and heralded, the heads-of-state-level Quad Summit in New Delhi, has emerged much like a molehill from a mountain of expectations. Relegated to yet another ministerial-level meeting, the alliance’s grand layout has shrunk.
Donald Trump, famously whimsical and chronically transactional, has found himself trapped in a web of misadventures, reflecting a debatable level of strategic maturity and dubious regime-change ventures, to be bothered by initiatives like the Quad, to which he reportedly paid initial lip service. But that could as well have been his typical grandstanding.
In fact, speaking of securing energy chains, the American enterprise in Venezuela looks far more like a private resource grab than a coherent geopolitical doctrine that India can........