Researcher Christian Wagner thinks that Europe has misunderstood India in the past, “there is a tendency to assume that India as the largest democracy seems automatically to be in the Western camp.”
Wagner said, “India wants to be a pole in a multipolar world.” “And at the moment, of course, it is in a very favorable position, because both Western countries, the United States, the European Union, as well as Russia, as well as China, are wooing India and trying to deepen their ties. Trying.. So, I think India chairing G20 will also use this moment for its geopolitical ambition.
India assumed the chairmanship of the G20, or Group of Twenty, an intergovernmental forum of the world’s major economies in December. The role alternates each year to a different member state, with Brazil set to take over the leadership in November 2023.
