China Global Times: The whole world will be surprised to hear what Chinese newspaper Global Times has written about Modi.

Global Times, a leading Chinese government newspaper, has praised India’s strategic confidence and proactive approach in shaping the India narrative. Zhang Jiadong, director of the Center for South Asian Studies at Fudan University, highlighted India’s remarkable achievements in the last four years in his article published in the government newspaper on January 2. It also acknowledged India’s economic growth, improvements in urban governance and a change in approach to international relations, particularly with China.

Zhang wrote in the article, on the one hand, India has made great achievements in economic development and social governance. Its economy has gained momentum and is on its way to becoming one of the fastest growing major economies. Zhang said when discussing the trade imbalance between China and India, Indian representatives previously mainly focused on China’s measures to reduce the trade imbalance. But now they are placing more emphasis on India’s export potential. In the political and cultural spheres, India has moved beyond emphasizing its democratic understanding with the West to highlighting the Indian distinctiveness of democratic politics.

In his article, Jiadong also said that this shift reflects India’s ambition to escape its historical colonial past and act as a world protector politically and culturally. The article also lauded the multi-alignment strategy launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while highlighting how it has managed relations with the US, Japan and Russia while displaying a nuanced stance on the Russia–Ukraine conflict. Helped to strengthen.