‘The diplomats of India should be given the task of coming up with a new type of global rule for the more uniform world’ Photo Credit: Getty Image/ISTOCKPhoto
India is at another violation point, Kozhikode in 1498 reminds Vasco de Gama and lacks a gentle zamorin with a strategic intentions. Instead of trade routes, global value chains are being re -shaped by force. The bets are high for India which is in queue to be the third largest economy.
The 75-year-old answer-colonial order labeled as globalization is characterized by multilateralism implementing rules-based restrictions on all for common good. Its ideological basis of the world divided between ‘donors’ and ‘recipients’ overtook China as the largest donor in the United States, and in part of manufacturing and global trade. The World Trade Organization and the United Nations and treaties lost their utility for supporters, which made us a comeback. The Covid-19 epidemic exposed the G-7 to corner drugs, unaware of the plight of others. Now, G-7 is leaving a vacuum and global institutions such as BRICS will soon request more for membership.
US President Donald Trump is not eccentric. He is responding to a more similar world that is exiting the colonial frame that is trying to capture the fading benefits. Bilateral deal countries are forced to subordinate their interests and the way tariffs have been described and arbitrarily defined on the basis of trade imbalance that national laws should be replaced. At least developed countries no longer there are no privileges. America is restructuring its approach to prosperity and power and therefore others should be.
A post-WTO frame
The ‘breakup’ of G-7 and G-20 now leaves the global agenda-setting open. Since 2020, the United States, China, European Union and India have contributed about three-fourths of all development together, with the US and China accounting for about half. The decline in the relative power of American Russia has also become an Asian power, increasing energy relations with China and India.
Asia will soon have two-thirds of global wealth and power (as there was a case in civilization except for the age of colonialism). Geophysicism has returned to its natural state of its co-existence shared prosperity.
India should be strategic to understand the new opportunities with the ‘disintegration’ of the WTO, such as China used admission to the WTO for its rise. The US and China are very equally balanced in terms of impact, trade, technology, defensive military capacity and tight-for-tat playing at tariff levels. The challenge is that business relations with the US have to be built to carry forward their agriculture and energy surplus and to coordinate with China.
The direction of the future has been determined in the recent statement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that it is the Asian century. There is an opportunity to jointly work on an Asiatic general market with bilateral concessions to share upheaval prosperity within the association of the South -East Asian nations (ASEAN). As the WTO’s ‘most chewing nations’ removes the section of non-discrimination, it is to propose a new cooperative architecture for the ASEAN and the African Union in the long-term interests of India, as their possible consumption will exceed the current consumption in the US and Europe.
World class diplomats of India should be given the task of coming up with a new type of principles of global rule for a more similar world. Achieving from global value chains that are more dependent on technology than tariffs require to meet a new type of rules that reduce non-tariff barriers and treat relationships between goods, services, investment and infrastructure as part of overall agreements with an annual national impacts.
Trade and innovation neglected
Emerging from colonialism, India implicated the foreign policy in terms of balance between great powers, rely on strategy compared to strategy. The first challenge for the post -colonial world was the Bondung Conference of New Independent Asian and African countries in 1955. Jawaharlal Nehru moved to the non-composed movement in 1961, transferred from economic development to a divided world, and became the favorite of the West, while India remained poor. The best diplomats are still sent to the United Nations to interact on resolutions, ignoring rights and opportunities through business. India also ignored what other major powers are doing – technological innovation in partnership with academics and industry, which is another party of business coins.
Now is the time to make a difficult decision to develop a national consensus between political parties and states to focus on talent and skills and employment to re -achieve our technical growth, wealth and global status. The opposite of the West East evolved on the foundation of colonialism. New policy groups need to look and receive supplements with China, ASEAN and Africa as the price chains are restructured. There will no longer be global goods and treaties, which can be subscribed; Small countries that have been killed by the new order are looking for the option to choose the sides
India has endogenous ability to aim to global technical leadership by developing open source software that will shape future multilateralism and international cooperation. Huawei, which was approved by the US to spread telecommunications networks worldwide, is creating a 7-nanometer (7Nm) chips behind global technology leaders. The Deepsek Open Source AI model is the best and best in America. Fifteen years ago, a World Bank study said that China has reached a global scale in the hardware industry, but not in the software. India had achieved upside down, then stumbled.
Lesson from China
The most important lesson in China’s emergence is national consensus on endogenous routes to achieve prosperity, and does not look at socio-economic development through the West modeling prism. Patents are a better indicator of future prosperity than GDP. Reducing the price of confident power is the most effective incentive for the reorganization of the economy, and the optimal adaptation for adverse effects of prosperity climate change.
India needs to create grand challenges with academics and industry to take advantage of its world -class human talent, huge data and perfect digital stack, which is to create the best big language models in the world, which will make India a combined cyber power. In the digital world, the foundation of wealth and influence is AI, reminiscent of India’s clothes, which reminds the world’s clothes and not a monopoly for the millennium who rely on skills.
Mukul Sanwal is a former United Nations diplomat
Published – May 03, 2025 12:16 AM IST