Xi Lacks Good Foreign Policy, most crucial relationship for Beijing should be India; Fareed Zakaria

Rahul Kanwal, Executive Director of Business Today, in an exclusive conversation with Fareed Zakaria, Host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN discusses on Chinese President Xi Jinping has not been a particularly good foreign policy president as he has managed to alienate countries like India, Japan, and Vietnam, said foreign policy expert Fareed Zakaria on Monday. He said China's rise has caused great nervousness and anxiety in Japan, India, Vietnam, South Korea, Australia, and the Philippines. "Xi has not been a particularly good foreign policy president. In that sense, he has managed to alienate almost all these countries. So if Xi is able to genuinely adjust course, that would be one thing. But I think Xi is much more ideological than people realise," he said. Speaking on the ongoing tension between New Delhi and Beijing and Xi Jinping's boycott of the G20 event in New Delhi, Zakaria said if Xi was smart, he would know the most important relationship in the world for China should be India."Because if he can defang India and defang India's opposition to him, the American alliance in Asia becomes much less potent because otherwise, you're dealing with offshore countries. India is the only major (country in the region). He's playing to a different tune. He's not taking any real steps," he said.