00:00Lieutenant Dua, let's bring you in here.
00:02What do you make of something that Fred Flights has said there,
00:07that the world doesn't really want a new world order?
00:12How does India feel about that?
00:13Because we've heard Prime Minister Modi talking regularly
00:16about bringing the global south closer to the seat of power.
00:21Well, to my mind, this is an era of multi-engagements.
00:28Both my co-panelists are from the U.S. and China, respectively.
00:33I'm from India and a military general at that, a retired general at that.
00:37So the point I would like to make is that we are seeing an era of multilateral engagements.
00:46Calling it a new world order would be too hasty as of now.
00:52The kind of the might of the military might that was at display
00:57was surely planned much before Trump's tariffs and SEO meetings and things like that.
01:06So while it is good to see China wanted to showcase their technological progress,
01:14which they did very well,
01:16because the world generally labors under an impression that it is U.S.
01:21which has the technological edge,
01:23to which China has now tried to showcase their technology.
01:30About India trying to lead the global south or provide a voice to the global south,
01:37yes, India has been doing that.
01:39We have been doing that constantly.
01:42India is also drawing a judicious balance between different countries on different issues,
01:51more of an issue-based stand that India has been taking.
01:56And for instance, Prime Minister Modi is the only president who can talk to
02:01President Putin and Zelensky at the same time,
02:06the only country that can talk to Israel and Iran at the same time.
02:10So India has been asserting its own,
02:15if I may use the word, strategic autonomy.
02:19It is not bowed down under pressure from the U.S.,
02:23whether it is tariffs or whether it was earlier issue of not buying S-400
02:27or the Russian equipment and platforms.
02:30India has been buying oil.
02:32So I would just end up by saying India is setting its own path.
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