National Security Conversations

In this episode, Dr.Happymon Jacob and Amb. Walter J. Lindner (German Ambassador to India) discuss the implications of the German Government’s new policy guidelines for the Indo-Pacific region.Starting with the curious timing of its announcement in the midst of the Indo-China standoff at the LAC, they discuss the opportunities & challenges in the Indo-pacific region before shedding light on how Germany seeks “to promote the ‘enforcement’ of rule-based order in the region”.While acknowledging that the strategy is a ‘break from the past’ the Ambassador asserts that the new policy guidelines are not designed to take sides, but intended to support and initiate multilateralism.