Nothing wrong in India leaning towards U.S. as long as it can justify it, says ex-Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale

Former Foreign Secretary of India and author of “China’s Wars: The Policy and Diplomacy Behind Its Military Coercion”, Ambassador Vijay Gokhale, on Saturday said that “there was nothing wrong in India leaning towards the United States as long as India can justify it and it is beneficial”, here at the Tagore Auditorium, Tamil Nadu Government Music Auditorium in Chennai. The event was organised Chennai International Centre. In conversation with T.S. Tirumurti, former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, former Foriegn Secretary, Gokhale, said India’s first Prime Minister (Jawaharlal Nehru) never said that non-alignment to mean “not taking sides…