India has the potential to become a third pole in global politics, functioning as a counterweight to China.

“I think there's an everybody accepts everybody says USA and China are the two superpowers will there be a third poll and could that third pole become India there is a sort of set of thinking that America wants India to develop in that direction as a check on China.”

India's foreign policy is currently disorganized and lacks a clear, consistent identity on the world stage.

“On the other hand, there's another story which is that given all of that, India's economy maybe not all it's cracked up to be. We can get on to that in a second. But certainly its foreign policy is a real mess.”