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Vietnam has demonstrated a dexterity in its foreign policy that few other countries can claim, having hosted U.S. President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping and most recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin within a span of nine months. This is even more impressive considering that it comes at a time of growing geopolitical polarization and renewed rivalry between major powers in the international system.
Contrast this with India: While New Delhi claims to practice a foreign policy of multi or omni-alignment, India’s relations with China, Russia and even the United States are all strained to varying degrees.
This has been most obvious in the case of the India-China relationship, which has settled into a new normal since the border clashes in 2020. This put a halt to limited efforts to stabilize the bilateral relationship, which had occurred with a string of informal summits between Xi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018 and 2019. Modi’s recent X, formerly Twitter, exchange with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te and meeting with a U.S. Congressional delegation after it met the Dalai Lama, also gives pause to claims that Sino-Indian relations would improve under a third term Modi government.
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