New Delhi, Oct 5 China’s assertiveness is more evident with its rise and India will have to take this aspect into account in its overall “strategic calculus”, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said on Thursday.
Delving into disruptions in global geopolitical order, he also underlined the need for India to continue maintaining “strategic autonomy” in its approach and that the country move forward from its approach of “non-alignment” to an era of being a “Vishwa-mitra” — a friend to the world.
Delivering the fifth Gen KV Krishna Rao memorial lecture, the Chief of Defence Staff also referred to India’s “major dispute” on its northern borders with China and suggested that New Delhi will have to play a strategic autonomy card.
