India G-20 presidency

One year after India secured a seat at the G-20 for the African Union, the relationship has not lived up to expectations.

As India expands its global influence, Southeast Asian nations should leverage its initiatives and renew ties.

India’s G-20 presidency succeeded in pushing the climate funding envelope from the billions into the trillions.

By focusing on issues affecting developing countries, like food and fuel insecurity and debt, India is projecting itself as the leader of the Global South.

Islamabad could ask its friends in the G-20 to ensure that the final statement is not hostile to Pakistan in any way.

The Chinese foreign ministry has not given a reason for Xi’s absence at the upcoming event. Relations along the India-China border have been tense.

Rather than setting an agenda that would put forward the voices of the Global South and the world’s most marginalized, India has used its G-20 presidency for cynically domestic political purposes. 

With Xi possibly visiting India for the G-20 Summit in September, some hope for a tempering of tensions. But that might just be wishful thinking. 

India has made clear that it wants to use its G-20 presidency to give voice to concerns of the Global South.

India is attempting to present the territory a bastion of peace, four years after the abrogation of Article 370. But that peace has come at a high cost.

The G-20 tourism meeting will be the first significant international event in Kashmir since New Delhi stripped region of its autonomy in 2019.

Engaging with India is imperative for the G-7.

Shaping the multilateral agenda amidst varied national interests will be an important diplomatic test for India. 

India is increasingly serving as a model for countries worldwide by demonstrating how economic development and environmental conservation can be complementary.

German Chancellor Scholz’s recent visit to India was much more consequential than “chai sipping in Chanakyapuri.”

India pitched its identity as both a stalwart U.S. partner and a core member of the Global South.

India's hope to avoid the Ukraine issue during its G-20 presidency has proved immensely naïve.

China's foreign minister met with his counterparts from Russia and India at a meeting dominated by discussions of the Ukraine war.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the meeting by warning that "multilateralism is in crisis today."

Antagonism over the Russia-Ukraine war has left G-20 host India in the unenviable position of trying to reconcile clearly irreconcilable differences.

India may be optimistic about its G-20 presidency, but the prospects for a transformative multilateralism are currently dim.

The G-20 must avoid giving legitimacy to an exclusionary nation-branding project in which minorities are banished to the sidelines.

India is making digital technology governance a centerpiece of its G-20 presidency. It is a stark signpost of its aspirations as a global digital leader.

Does the grand rhetoric of India’s foreign policy aspirations match the reality of the country’s domestic reform momentum?