Opinion | Why PM Modi’s Foreign Trips Matter |
Opinion | Why PM Modi’s Foreign Trips Matter
Far from being symbolic excursions, these visits are directly linked to India’s energy security, technological sovereignty, and strategic resilience
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign visits have long been an easy talking point for sections of the opposition, particularly the Indian National Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party. The charge is familiar and increasingly clichéd: excessive travel, extravagant optics, unnecessary global outreach, absence from India.
This criticism, though, increasingly collapses under the weight of facts, as is evident from the gamut of outcomes from PM Modi’s ongoing Europe tour.
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In today’s fractured geopolitical landscape, diplomacy is no longer ceremonial. It is strategic warfare conducted through economic alliances, technology partnerships, energy arrangements, and supply-chain positioning. Nations that stay absent from negotiating futuristic deals risk becoming dependent powers rather than decisive ones. PM Modi’s ongoing multi-nation engagement with the United Arab Emirates, Netherlands and Sweden demonstrates precisely why high-level diplomacy matters.
Far from being symbolic excursions, these visits are directly linked to India’s energy security, technological sovereignty, and strategic resilience.
UAE: Securing India’s Energy Future
The UAE leg of the visit carried one overriding priority—energy security.
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