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India Maneuvers for Big Power Status

As Delhi rises economically, it seeks a multipolar world

Sep 14, 2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh

India, its expansionist cap firmly in place, is straining impatiently to join the ranks of big-power nations, having just surpassed the United Kingdom as the world’s fifth largest economy, thanks to the shock the Russia-Ukraine war has delivered to the UK, and the damage it has done itself through Brexit.

While the war and its enorm…

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