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India Assumes Chairmanship of Bay of Bengal Inter-Governmental Organisation at the 13th Governing Council Meeting in Malé, Maldives
In a historic move, India assumed Chairmanship of Bay of Bengal (BOB) Inter-Governmental Organisatio
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What kind of policy is this? First you tell whole of the nation to avoid tourism in Maldives and promote Lakshadweep and when people start doing it you suddenly land in Maldives for bilateral and trade talks and say neighbours first? What a fail foreign policy is this? Are they fooling around with the people of this nation? Stupid double standards foreign policy. You are not honest to your own words, and world will read these actions. Tomorrow again Maldives will get close to China and milk you and you will land there with garland of mangoes or what? In parliament this has to be debated. And what about domestic tourism in Lakshadweep which was being promoted? Only show off or what?
Make enemy leader your friend so that he backstabs again and you go there to appease him again and again. Nonsense!
Do you know what foreign policy is? What role does Maldives geographical position play in our Maritime ambition? What a hyper and narrow point of view you've got there.
Infact this shows how to control and reign in your enemies. You think if we don't do diplomacy, china won't take advantage like it did in srilanka?
Does this mean that govt has asked to go to Maldives and not lakshadweep? No. Why do you need bad relationship with male to promote lakshadweep?
Going against their word? Show me one statement of MEA or Modi where it implies that Maldives was not important for India or an enemy state? First you criticise that Indian foreign policy is reactive, not proactive.
Now when our policy is turning into proactive with future vision, you are criticising why it's not reactive enough? What happened to reaction?
C'mon! I expect better from this forum. Foreign policies outlast government. It will outlast muizzu too.
Dont be emotional. Be realpolitik. If foreign policy became emotional, we probably will never have FTA with UK or EU. Let alone relationship with others.
Diplomacy is not one off thing. It evolves. It adapts. It is dynamic depending on thousands of factors and developments taking place on the world.
Don't watch Rahul gandhi too much. You will start hating India and loving China.
Really, Bangladesh went out of your influence last year and before that it was your foreign policy which led to retreat of Indian soldiers from Maldives. Don't you understand they are milking you!
So they will give orders now to Indians where to go where not to go? They can't! It were Indian citizens who decided to boycott Maldives in favor of boosting Indian tourism and now here you are to point zero.
They why was the fuzz created by BJP IT cellia on Maldives issue. Next time if they need support people will simply ignore. This should be an eyeopener.
Now after enjoying so many years and breaking record of Indira gandhi's tenure as PM. Very well.
Give me guarantee the Maldives will not milk India and never sideline with China, give that in written.
1. I clearly mentioned foreign policy is an ever evolving domain. China is having problems with Phillipines , vietnam etc who are increasingly pivoting towards USA. Is chinese foreign policy bad? Pakistan's Munir went to USA, is chinese foreign policy bad?
What kind of logic is that ? You clearly disregard the impact of bangladesh' domestic politics on its foreign policy?
You seem to think India is the only players and rest of the world has no relations with each other. China is just sitting quietly and not meddling in Maldives, right? Like, I don't understand what kind of point you're trying to come to here?
Eh? When did they give order. It was you who implied that govt gave some sort of order to not go to Maldives. You are taking both sides to further your point. Don't have double standards while accusing others.
It was Indian citizens who decided to boycott Maldives! Exactly. And my point stands.. Govt is not asking you to go to Malè now either. And neither it's stopping the promotion of lakshadweep. Again, whats your point?
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Do you know what the Maldives fuzz was and why ? Cause their leaders disrespected our PM. BJP and People of India responded. They will again respond. Whats the issue here for you? Has the IT cell, creating a buzz to stop tourism to lakshadweep now?
What does that have to do with MEA?
One is a branch of a political party. Another is a branch of Govt of India. Again, whats your point? I think people know whom to trust and whom to not. And I don't think you trusted govt before either, so the point is moot for you not trusting govt in future.
Not just now. What do you think happened when west was forcing us to boycott Russia? And now when they themselves are realising the need to change their approach towards India? C'mon man! Atleast follow the evolution carefully. A visit doesn't happen in a day. Muizzu visited India twice! since then. You seem more hurt from Modi govt outlasting Indira's govt. You're not commenting on foreign policy. You're just looking for excuses like Rahul does. Without any substance or understanding of the issue.
?????? Give me in writing you will do good and only good for India and Indians and from now on only comment without any bias. Give me guarantee that you will not be biased. Give that to me in written. What kind of observer are you? Is this how the one you support plans to run the foreign policy of the country?
That was mostly to make them realise who we are ..what we are capable of..just a small kick and you start bleeding...if they learnt the lesson the better .... turning away completely from them...or fighting against them..or have hostile relationship with them will not benefit us ..this is diplomacy and its nature ...you always have to deal and make way for your interests no matter how annoyed or angry you feel...always being blunt and straight forward about something is not the best way...it may be that message has been sent and understood by otherside as well .. that's why pm modi is there..
Infact that's a very positive point, I would say.
Imagine if a leader disrespected trump like that. You will see him go gaga over it. That's when ego becomes superior to national interest.
Here our interest prevailed the ego. People think if any leader of Congress was insulted then their party will not react to it.
Rather than screaming, why don't you provide better alternative? Give your idea of a better foreign policy. Not the outcome you want, but the approach you would've taken, the decision you would've taken.
And we can discuss those. Otherwise you are just not being constructive. Leave politics for politicians or twitter if you really wanna do it.
Here, let's do something constructive.
The Chinese foreign policy is to grab the land. Do you have that policy? They have made certain with their long term strategic interest about their behavior with the other nations where they want to do the land grab. Their foreign policy doesn't flicker and contradict.
So the Indians realized that that was a wrong move to ignore Maldives or what, Indians need them more than Maldives need India? LOL!!
Get milked again and again. That's your policy is. Where has Chinese milk them the otherway.
When Indian citizens have decided and given a mandate why to overrule it by promising infrastructure to them to boost their tourism? More over The PM himself went there. If they had to do it, then should have kept low profile, why promoting Maldives?
1st condition should have been return of soldiers to the Maldives. And only then PM should have gone there.
The optics of PM of India presenting gifts and aid to them, promising infrastructure assistance means that only. You may have different idea, but it means to boost ties. Rs. 4000 crore is not get dumped again.
Optics say it clearly, go to Maldives.
You give me in writing first that this was the last time Maldives went into Chinese Pakistani axis. It's not about me and you it is about foreign policy and national security.
Optics say a lot of words.
And then PM went to Maldives, making Indians realize that India need Maldives more than Maldives need India or what? PM should have not gone there, the visit should have been low profile by MoS Foreign affairs.
Every person, entity have it's distinct features(in case of nation..it evolves with time..hence you need foreign minister to project the nation and its interests accordingly)..its own strength and weakness..a country like US or with Us like power can afford to have someone like trump(may not be loudmouth like him)..or conversely A leader like Trump can find place only in US..if US and trump were in place of India..they would have gone any way(sanction/tarrif, withholding aid, threatening militarily)..and it most likely would have worked ...but not in case of india..india as per its own strength and weakness is playing it india way....cheap,safe and effective..
Forgotten the shoes thrown at Bush and Obama? Learn to take tough decisions and not just get emotional. The foreign policy doesn't change.
Get your man in place of that Muzzie.
The mandate of Indian citizens should have been respected, and not thrown into dustbin by going there. The visit should have been a low profile visit by MOS Foreign affairs. Modi Ji is a brand name and if he himself goes there, that means he is promoting the Indo Maldives relation, in which tourism is also a part of it.