Status Quo Or Engage? How Modi 3.0 Will Deal With Adversaries China And Pakistan

With PM Narendra Modi coming to power for the third time, expectations are high that he will be able to iron out mounting tensions on the country’s western as well as northern borders.

PM Narendra Modi, Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R).

Source : X/@CMShehbaz and PTI

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third tenure began with a strong signal to China – as the Indian Ocean countries were invited for his swearing-in ceremony, including Maldives (which has taken an official anti-India and a pro-China stance). China wasn’t invited and neither was Pakistan, even as other neighbours – from Bhutan and Nepal to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh – were. With Prime Minister Modi constituting the same national security apparatus in his third