Independent Thinking: Was the G20 India’s coming out party?

Episode 39 of our weekly podcast discusses the G20 summit in New Delhi and India’s growing sway in the world.

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This week world leaders met in India for the G20 to discuss economic relations. Underlying the summit however were wider international tensions, with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin both absent from what some have described as India’s ‘coming out party’.

The panel discuss what was agreed at the G20, as well as the wider sense of India on the rise.

Joining Bronwen Maddox in the studio this week are writer and academic Samir Puri, Leslie Vinjamuri, the Director of our US and Americas programme and Chietigj Bajpaee, our new South Asia Fellow with the Asia-Pacific programme.

The thumbail image for this episode shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting media after the closing of G20 Summit. (Photo by Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images).

About Independent Thinking

Independent Thinking is a weekly international affairs podcast hosted by our director Bronwen Maddox, in conversation with leading policymakers, journalists, and Chatham House experts providing insight on the latest international issues.

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