NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on world powers gathering Thursday in India’s capital to draw on the inspiration of Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi and “focus not on what divides but on what unites us.”It was a not-so-subtle warning that the deep divisions over the war in Ukraine risked spoiling India’s ambitious agenda as host of this week’s Group of 20 meeting, a gathering of foreign ministers representing the world’s 20 largest economies.
Modi’s plea is forcing the United States to engage in a delicate dance. Blinken and his top aides want to remain respectful to Modi’s wishes as host, especially as they seek to court India as a counterweight to a rising China. But they feel strongly that the raging war in Europe can’t be ignored.
“Global development and prosperity cannot be achieved without a peaceful and stable international environment,” Qin said in a statement.Modi wants to avoid a repeat of what happened at the G-20 meeting of finance officials last week, when countries failed to reach a consensus on the joint communique after Russia and China opposed two paragraphs that criticized the “war in Ukraine” as harming the global economy, according to Indian officials.
“That's obviously a non-starter and should be a non-starter, not just for Ukraine and for us, but for countries around the world,” Blinken said.
Of course,the Ukrainian war is the hero!
Apparently Modi is a knee-jerk opponent of the UK (understandable given UK history), but siding with a different country with long imperialist history which is engaging in an imperialist war as he speaks is not going to help India with food or energy security.
Worthy goal but just not in the cards. The acute always supersedes the chronic in any given moment. And little is more chronic in the pantheon of the human experience than famine.
Modi is most loved leader in world
The problem of the east and 79% of the world is food and fuel. The problem of the west is they r losing power and supremacy.