DIPLOMACY’ OF INDIA: A BOON FOR TROUBLED NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES

investment in the Greater Male project. Such initiative of India, an unprecedented confidence and relationship has been built. Maldives has made a announcement of supporting India for a non-permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council in 2027. Similarly Sri Lanka has recently announced to implement the 1987 Indo-Lanka agreement (The Constitutional Amendment 13A) soon. Undoubtedly this is a huge diplomatic success of India.

IN-DEPTH HATE SPEECHES GO UNCHECKED IN POLL-BOUND KARNATAKA

It is the result of India’s cooperative-diplomacy that there has been such a big change in China’s attitude and has taken steps for financial assistance, keeping a soft attitude towards the debtor countries, otherwise in the critical phase of the crisis last year, Sri Lanka had to pay $ 6.8 million under the pressure of the Chinese govt

John Adams (Former President of USA) had said- “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country: One is by the sword; the other is by debt.” China, choosing the second path, has embraced colonial-era practices and rapidly emerged as the world’s biggest official creditor. In the last decade, China has badly trapped the poor and developing countries of the world. By choosing the second path, China has adopted the practices of the colonial era and in the last decade has badly trapped in its debttrap by giving huge loans to the poor and developing countries of the world.

China’s debt-trap policy has affected India’s neighbouring countries the most. Stuck in the vicious cycle of Chinese debt, the economies of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Maldives have reached the brink of destruction. Sri Lanka and Pakistan are going through the worst economic and food crisis ever. In Sri Lanka last year, the people had uprooted the government by adopting the internal rebellion. The country is still on the verge of bankruptcy.

According to a recent statement by Finance Minister Ali