Rajnath Singh's message to China, If harmed, India won't spare anyone

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, in a strong message to China, said that if harmed, India will not spare anyone. Singh, in his address to the Indian-American community in San Francisco, also sent a subtle message to the US that New Delhi does not believe in a diplomacy of “zero-sum game” and its relationship with one country cannot be at the expense of the other.Rajnath Singh also asserted that India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as a powerful country and is headed to be among the top three economies of the world. “The image of India has changed. The prestige of India has improved. In the next few years, no power in the world can stop India from becoming the world’s top three economies,” Singh said. “If India has a good relationship with one country, it does not mean that its relationship with any other country will deteriorate”, he said. “India has never adopted this kind of diplomacy. India will never opt for this (kind of diplomacy). We don’t believe in the zero-sum game in international relationships,” he said. India, he said, believes in having a bilateral relationship which is based on “win-win” for both countries.

Singh said that in the past, if any country in the world wanted to develop and prosper, they always thought about establishing a vibrant trade with India. We should aim at establishing a similar ecosystem in India by the time we celebrate our 100th independence Day in 2047,” he said.The defence minister said that during his last trip to the US in 2013, at a reception in New Jersey he had told a group of Indian Americans that "the success story of India is not over, it is waiting for the BJP to come into power. At that time, people were disappointed with the performance of the then Congress government." In eight years, he said, the Modi government has "turned around" the country and the image of India has changed for the better.