Sanjaya Baru

“For China, the GCC countries have emerged as a major market for Chinese manufactured goods and food exports.”

“Adversity is the mother of enterprise.”

“When national policy becomes hostage to regional interests, the federal government becomes paralysed and would be unable to act in the larger national interest.”

“The liberal fiscal spending of the 2004-08 period was made possible both by rising government revenues and national income growth and by relative comfort on the external side. After 2009,these pillars of growth began to wobble. By 2012, they were shaking.”

“The G-20,with all its inadequacies, is a mixed group of the world's rising and risen powers.”

“Few in Europe imagined the incompetence and dishonesty of Greek economic managers would bring the entire European project into question.”

“I have been visiting China since 1995.”

“The 1990s was not just Japan's 'wasted decade,' it was also a wasted decade for the India-Japan relationship.”

“The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.”

“Battles, on the military and the economic front, are first lost in the minds of the strategists for want of ideas before they are lost on the battleground for want of armoury.”

“Given the stake that both the U.S. and Europe have in stabilising and sustaining global growth, their policies should be aimed at ensuring China, India, and other newly industrialising Asian economies can take up the slack created by the slowdown in OECD economies.”

“For too long have many of us in India imagined a future in which the country would rise, leaving the rest of the subcontinent behind. This is neither possible nor warranted.”

“As Asia's rising powers seek to sustain growth and ensure stability, energy security has moved to the forefront of Asian geopolitics.”

“The reason a Congress-led coalition didn't happen in 1990 was because it is entirely possible that Rajiv Gandhi himself wasn't sure how the Congress party would evolve in that context.”

“Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.”

“I have not broken any promises, but I have full freedom to say or write about what others have said to me during my tenure in the PMO.”

“When I was in the PMO, Digvijaya Singh used to call me whenever he wanted to see the PM. He used to go through me. He is under compulsion to criticise me, but I am under no compulsion to criticise him.”

“The role of the media in economic management is not often recognised even by professional economists. Politicians, however, ignore this at their own peril.”

“The world may view India more benignly, but it does more business with China. It courts China; it needs China. Look at the genuflecting Europeans and the fork-tongued Americans!”

“David Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher.”