Back-to-back BRICS and Quad meetings highlight India’s increasingly difficult balancing act (Chietigj Bajpaee – Chatham House)

Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar attended the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) foreign ministers’ meeting in Washington on 1 July, just days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on 6–7 July. While this demonstrates the agility of New Delhi’s foreign policy, it also highlights the challenges it faces in maintaining strategic autonomy in an increasingly unstable and fragmented international system.

Back-to-back BRICS and Quad meetings highlight India’s increasingly difficult balancing act | Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank