India doesn’t seek a multipolar world – it’s already here

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This is a response to Ashley Tellis’s article ‘India’s great-power delusions: How New Delhi’s grand strategy thwarts its grand ambitions’ (Foreign Affairs, July/August 2025). Briefly, the article alleges that India seeks to fabricate a multipolar world and asserts that its pursuit of strategic autonomy risks weakening its relationship with the US to the detriment of India’s security concerns over China. The article claims that India aims “to restrain not just China — the near-term challenge — but also any country that would aspire to singular, hegemonic dominance, including the United States”. India does not “seek” a multipolar international system; the...