Can India remain Democracy’s poster child?

So they invent their rules, their parameters, they pass their judgements and then make out as though this is some kind of global exercise.

Elsewhere, according to Jaishankar, the "two centuries of national humiliation" that the West inflicted upon India and the US$45 trillion estimated by Indian economist, Utsa Patnaik, that was drained and stolen from the sub continent by Britain are justifications for India's refusal to side with the West.

A large part of Jaishankar's response on India's domestic and international position can be seen to be not only not different but also very much a copy of how China has responded to western criticism of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Falun Gong and other similar subjects of controversy.

Now that India's honeymoon with the West seems to be over, perhaps this is the time for the two nations to make peace on their boundary dispute and get their act together to take on the "self-appointed custodians of the world".

This could open an entirely new page in both nations' and the Asia Pacific's history.