Modi’s Balancing Act for India Faces G-20 Test

Supporters of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bengaluru on May 6..

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India’s top diplomat, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, once described his nation’s foreign policy as a complex pursuit of apparently contradictory objectives that should be thought of “not just as arithmetic, but as calculus.”