Introducing Global India, a podcast about India’s role in the world

How does India deal with its friends and its rivals? How does it see its role in the world? On the new Brookings podcast Global India, host Tanvi Madan, senior fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings, and her guests unpack India’s foreign policy. This season focuses on India’s relationship with China. Follow Global India on YouTube or your preferred podcast app.

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TANVI MADAN: How does India deal with its friends and its rivals? How does it see its role in the world?

VIJAY GOKHALE: The India-China relationship is fraught with tension and uncertainty, which was not the case even 15 years ago.

RAJI RAJAGOPALAN: Many also want to believe that we are friends, partners, the two Asian giants who can take on the rest of the world, who would love to go back to formulations like Chindia. But what I feel that they fail to take note of or take lessons from the multiple crises that we have seen even in the last few years.

KARAMBIR SINGH: We are watching Chinese maritime activities in the Indian Ocean very closely. And I, for one, follow the principle of not believing what the Chinese say, but acting on what they do.

TANVI MADAN: I’m Tanvi Madan, the host of the new Brookings podcast Global India. Join me and my guests as we unpack India’s foreign policy. This season will be focused on India’s relationship with China. Follow us on YouTube or your preferred podcast app.

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