India is seen as becoming a new superpower, rising above China. With the war in Ukraine, a concern of the West and China facing the recurrence of 19 Kovid, New Delhi has been gaining its geopolitical prestige.
But India's rise is unlikely to be good news for Western democracies, on the contrary, it could cause some dizzying headaches that are likely to be difficult to deal with. According to the publication of the Japanese newspaper Nikkei.
India has shown its ambition to play a more important role in world affairs. In fact, two weeks ago, India hosted the online Voice of the Global South Summit online, with 125 developing countries participating, including Cambodia. Join in too.
Speaking at the opening of the meeting, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "Your voice is India's voice and your priority is India's priority."
India also plans to use the chairmanship of the G-20 summit in 2023 to represent developing countries that are all affected by rising energy and food prices, as well as the effects of global warming and climate change. Influence of geopolitical heat. They consider developed countries to be responsible for these issues, while they consider themselves the worst victims.
In addition to the political impact on India's demographic, a population of more than 1.4 billion is on track to overtake China by 2023.
At the same time, India is likely to beat Britain in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) by becoming the world's fifth largest economy. This is according to estimates of the International Monetary Fund. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) also forecasts that India's economy will grow at around 7.2%, the highest among Asia-Pacific countries.
India's economic growth has been driven by global trends such as supply chains, where New Delhi is becoming a new target for tech giants to invest after China, which is embroiled in tensions with the United States and the epidemic. 19.
India is expected to overtake Germany's GDP by 2025 and Japan by 2027, making it the world's third largest economy after the United States and China as it celebrates its independence. Nation for 100 years.
However, with the rise of India, the West is worried that India will become more ungrateful by continuing to associate with aggressors such as Russia for their own benefit. In fact, one can only see this moment in the relationship between New Delhi and Moscow.
In August and September, India participated in military exercises with Russia, despite criticism from the West. Notably, India voted unanimously to condemn Russia for occupying and holding referendums in four Ukrainian territories.
In addition, India has expanded its oil imports from Russia by buying more than 1 million barrels a day since September, making Russia India's largest oil supplier to replace Iraq and Russia. Saudi Arabia.
Analysts say India has used a strategy of tightening ties with the West to counter Chinese influence. But after seeing that Western partners are no longer valuable, India also turned to shaking hands with dictators like Russia to reduce China's influence.
The West is also concerned that India's image of democracy is changing. According to a 2020 research report conducted by Sweden's V-Dem Institute, India has seriously violated the media space, civil society and the opposition under the Modi government.
So as a result of the above worrying factors, how can the world solve if India becomes the new superpower in the 21st century, it seems that an Asian giant is likely to create problems. Not least for the West in the near future.


