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Over the last decade, with China’s aggressive expansionism, Malaysia has increasingly looked to India to help balance power in the region.

At this moment, India simply needs to engage continuously and unrelentingly with the nations of the Global South with a razor-sharp focus on localised as well as geopolitical issues of importance.

India is an attractive partner to a Europe that is trying to find its feet after realising that it cannot integrate and fall behind all agendas pushed by the United States blindly and that it also needs to counterbalance dependence on China that has grown out in the past decades.

Those sovereign governments that disagreed with the agendas of this alleged network were countered with the full force of its infrastructure and were eventually destabilised with mass protests and/or military intervention, conveniently using the excuse of ‘right to protect.

It is a matter of great concern if forces from the West try to bring instability to India’s neighbourhood, looking for an opportunity to strike within India.

In all probability, if the groups behind the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government in Bangladesh occupy power in the country, the relationship between New Delhi and Dhaka could be marred, adding another hostile neighbour to India in an already disturbed South Asia.

Investments and cooperation in electronics, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, clean energy, and digital economy may take prominence during Pham Minh Chinh’s visit to India.