00:00And it's so interesting because during a joint press conference with Macron, Modi said the
00:05India-France partnership knows no boundary. Can this blossoming alliance reshape the regional
00:12balance of power in the Indo-Pacific? Because as you said to me, there is these shifting global
00:18alliances we are seeing. Absolutely. But this is not in the NATO or the security block kind of a
00:25way, but more strategic, more like strategic trade kind of partnership and most trustworthy
00:33partnership. Can I just take you a little bit to what the partnership has been and why it is so
00:39strong and why he would say it's no boundary partnership? Because it all started on 26 January
00:461998. France became the first Western power to have a strategic alliance with India. Then comes
00:55May 20, 1998, when India went nuclear and everyone had sanctions in India. France opposed that. And
01:04over a period of time, it has been a quiet relationship, but it has been a very, very
01:10trustworthy relationship. That's why India has a lot of trust. And that has been built over a period
01:16of time. Also, another thing which is very important and plays into this entire sentence that the prime
01:22minister said, which is quite loaded actually with historical context, which I'm trying to give
01:26as quickly as possible, is that it never interferes in India's internal matters. And it is very
01:35capability building. As I said, it's not selling. It is saying we will. So these Raphaels will be
01:41assembled in India. Possibly, we don't know yet, but there will be some talks about building the
01:47engine, which is where India gets stuck because India started its Making India program on 25th September
01:53and 2014. And this plays into that. So co-develop, co-create and a partnership of strength together.
02:01And remember, even in AI, France is the first country and the only country to be present from
02:08the Western bloc. So it plays more into the trust factor, historical trust factor, and it has always
02:14come through. And for France, India is their strategic foothold in Asia. So it works. And it
02:23definitely creates a corridor where they don't have to depend on the US and China. And they will
02:32create another block of friendship, which has proven over a period of time.
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