“Europe must turn its predicament to Sambhavna,” says Thorsten Benner, Global Public Policy Institute
New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): Thorsten Benner, Co-founder and Director, Global Public Policy Institute took cues from External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and said that Europe must move towards the theme of Sambhavna, or ‘possibility’, which was the theme of the Carnegie 9th Global Tech Summit.
While speaking at the summit, Benner said that Europe must turn its predicament to Sambhavna because the modern world poses no other alternative to them.
“We can learn from the spirit in a sense, as Dr Jaishankar talked about our predicament as Europeans and I think we need to turn our predicament to Sambhavna, because we have no other choice and getting to action and rethinking things and we think in collaboration and diversifying what would we be starting to talk about,” he said.
He said that India is a central focus on this, and now Europe was doing something which was unthinkable before, like talking about defence cooperation with India.
“Of course India is the focus on this. I think the thinking on this has started to look at the coalition treaty in my country, which has just been concluded, and the talks about deepening the trading partnership with India. Who would have thought that there would be talks about deepening defence cooperation and green energy and overall energy partnerships? So, I think it is important to ask you to focus on India’s strategy,” he said.
Speaking at the same summit, Ashley J Tellis, Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that the US administration, led by US President Donald Trump, is very unpredictable.
“It’s very hard to try and define with precision what this administration [US administration] will do. But I think there are two trends that are competing for attention,” he said.
Tellis said that the US administration has something that he called ‘technonationalism’, wherein they want to bring back what they think is ‘lost’.
“One is a strong streak of technonationalism that exists in this administration. It wants to preserve and protect US tech dominance and bring back a variety of capabilities that it believes have been lost from the rest of the world back to the US. On the other hand, it is also a recognition that there will be limits to how successfully and how completely this process can actually be brought to fruition,” he said.
