ISAS Special Reports

As China and the United States seek to refashion today’s unsettled global order, India remains committed to staying the course of “strategic autonomy”. A political message of this magnitude has been spelt out by India’s External Affairs Minister, Mr Salman Khurshid, during a dialogue session under the auspices of the Singapore-based Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS). It is debatable whether such a pronouncement can or will silence the critics who have never tired of seeing India as a rising power that might fall because of its failure to conceptualise and act on the basis of a “strategic vision”. However, a sense of urgency has been thrust upon India in the emerging global context of China and the US trying to move towa