Representatives of the world’s largest economies—among them U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Bin Salman, and Japan’s Fumio Kishida—will be descending on New Delhi for this weekend’s G20 Leaders’ Summit.
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00:00 So, he is positioning himself as a global statesman, positioning himself as a global
00:27 thought leader, the leader of the global south, the voice of the global south and the voice
00:34 of a kind of rising India, rising to claim its place in the world.
00:38 And all of this I believe is designed to feed into the Modi personality cult, which is a
00:44 very expertly created, very well marketed cult designed to appeal to a demographic,
00:53 which will be very swayed by these promises of rising India, resurgent India internationally.
01:02 There I think we are looking at a more complicated picture, because I think that while you know
01:10 India is, as I said geopolitically in a sweet spot, there are rising concerns about human
01:16 rights, there are rising concerns about majoritarianism, there is a huge concern voiced by many organizations,
01:23 about India's democratic backsliding, the restrictions on internet, the restrictions
01:29 on the press, the restrictions on human rights activists, the jailing of dissenting voices,
01:35 the muzzling of the media.
01:37 So these are all real concerns and they are being raised across the western democracies.
01:45 He will be rubbing shoulders with President Joe Biden, who is coming for the summit.
01:50 He will be in the company of other global leaders.
01:52 So in terms of again bolstering that image, I think it will help him going forward into
01:59 the elections of 2024.
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