Malice From The Maldives
Keen to make big friends and influence distant powers, Narendra Modi has been on a diplomatic overdrive these four years. In the process, he has been neglecting his neighbourhood.
Modi came to power mocking at Manmohan Singh’s “love letters to Pakistan”, and boasting of a 56-inch chest. Since then, India has been getting it on all fronts in the western theatre—on the LoC, on the IB, within the valley, and even in Pathankot, Punjab. More of our troops were killed in the last two years than in any other earlier year.
To the Chinese, it was Manmohan who showed a brave chest. He raised a mountain strike corps and two new divisions against them, and moved Sukhoi squadrons and BrahMos regiments up close. The Chinese behaved.
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