ISAS Insights

Chinese President Xi Jinping has formally launched his ‘act-global initiative’ of creating a networked world which will have, at its core, Asia-Europe connectivity, for a start. India’s absence from Xi’s go-global launch in Beijing on 14 May 2017 has not cast any shadow over his efforts to think of alternative globalisation and translate that vision into a reality. India, therefore, needs to present its genuine local concerns in a manner acceptable to the international community. Indeed, New Delhi can and must do so without appearing eager, as at present, to take the wind out of China’s sails of a new-wave globalisation.