India has no reason to benchmark itself against China in Africa. Nor should it agonise over China’s presumed “lead”. Instead, India has the opportunity to develop its own model for sustainable cooperation with Africa.
Central to such a strategy must be the recognition that African elites are smart enough to figure out their own long-term interests. It is only by respecting Africa’s desire to build its own future and underlining absolute equality that India can differentiate itself from both the West and China.
The writer is a professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
iscrmohan@ntu.edu.sg
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