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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar connected Saturday (November 29, 2025) said authorities progressively "trumps" economics successful the contiguous era.
Mr. Jaishankar was addressing a gathering aft being conferred Honorary Doctorate by IIM-Calcutta astatine its field successful Kolkata.
"This is an epoch wherever authorities progressively trumps economics... and that is not a pun,” helium said.
"The United States, agelong the underwriter of the modern system, has acceptable radically caller presumption of engagement. It is doing truthful by dealing with countries connected a one-on-one basis," Mr. Jaishankar said.
He besides said that China has “long played by its ain rules”, and is doing truthful adjacent now.
The External Affairs Minister said successful the ensuing scenario, different nations are unclear whether attraction should beryllium connected disposable contention oregon the commercialized offs and understandings that punctuate it.
"Faced with specified pulls and pressures of globalisation, of fragmentation and of proviso insecurity, the remainder of the satellite responds by hedging against each contingencies," Mr. Jaishankar said.
He said India has been actively pursuing self-reliance and making itself a manufacturing basal for industries.
“India has been making exponential advancements successful infrastructure arsenic good arsenic successful latest technological developments,” helium added.
