COVERAGE
India’s foremost Strategic Thinkers Amb. Menon & Amb. Saran performing a jugalbandi.
Amb. Shivshankar feels that while the world
is still multipolar in addressing economic and
environmental issues and handling terrorism, in
military terms, it is Uni-polar on account of the
enormous military superiority of the US.
Amb.Shyam Saran, former Foreign
Secretary and Special Envoy of the PM
underlining how technology’s sweeping
changes are the real drivers of the
changes we are witnessing in the world
Amb. Shivshankar Menon, former
NSA explaining how the world today is
Uni-polar in military terms but loosely
multi-polar in economic matters.
Sunjoy Joshi explaining how trade isn’t merely
a matter of commerce
the countries which will master the new
technologies will have the upper hand and
dominate the world.
Amb. Shivshankar feels that while
the world is still multipolar in addressing
economic and environmental issues and
handling terrorism, in military terms, it
is Uni-polar on account of the enormous
military superiority of the US. The countries
which are agile and nimble-footed to change
and adapt will fare better than those which
are not able to adjust to the sweeping
changes.
Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman, ORF felt that
the trade war between the US & China was,
in fact, a proxy war for gaining political
dominance on the world.
IAFA’s Founding President, Amb.
Surendra Kumar wondered what the US
has achieved by its interventions in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Syria and why it is seeking
out the Taliban desperately which it had
driven out of Afghanistan in 2001-2002.
He also questioned President Trump’s
disruptive conduct of foreign policy and
the reversal of Obama’s approach to the
Iranian, Israeli-Palestinian issue as well as
speculated whether or not Cuba was adding
to International disorder.
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