The Changing Dimensions of India's Foreign Relations During COVID-19

ABSTRACT

This chapter intends to critically analyze India's changing dimensions of foreign policy during COVID-19. India's strategy to counter China in association with Australia, the USA, Japan, and other democratic countries of the world has been highlighted in this chapter. India's policy of ‘self-reliant' and financial challenges has been sequentially discussed in this chapter. The chapter will further delineate the relations between the domestic factors and external factors in the formulation of the neworientation-based foreign policy of India.COVID-19, it has been discovered, has taught India a valuable lesson. Due to the pandemic, India's foreign policy focus and equations have been steadily altering. India has attempted to improve its acceptability in the post-COVID world with a variety of generous and humanitarian initiatives, as a step toward realizing its global ambitions. The focus is on realizing the idea of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022, corrected publication 2022.