Conclusion: He has to reset the foreign policy against china from the policy of appeasement to offensive defense.

Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is the current Minister of External Affairs, successor of Late Smt. Sushma Swaraj, a diplomat turned politician and one of the most trusted persons on whom Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi relied upon the most. He is the Rajya Sabha member from Gujrat state sponsored by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is known as the key negotiator for the famous ‘123 nuclear agreement’ or ‘Indo – US civilian nuclear agreement’ with US for India. Started his career as the Indian Foreign Service officer in 1977 and gained the experience as an Ambassador, High Commissioner and Secretary of different ranks in various countries including US, Soviet Union, China, Singapore etc. He is also responsible for bringing FDI investments to India, especially from Singapore.

From the era of Late Sh. Rajiv Gandhi to Sh. Modi, he also has a lot experience of working with Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party. Do not forget that being the son of the civil servant Sh. K. Jaishankar, he was born and brought up in New Delhi and did his Phd in Jawarlal Nehru University (JNU) in International Relations. So JNU as an institution is not corrupt, but some fringe elements in the University rose anti Indian voices and spoiled the name of well renowned University.

In short, Jaishankar‘s diplomatic career is a blessing to India. The country has rarely seen such a efficient and dedicated diplomat who strengthen the Indian foreign policy over the period of years. And therefore, Modi called him for the post of Minister of External Affairs to serve more for the country.

Past is good, and after all this, our review system starts because all’s well that ends well and it’s not end yet.

Since 31st of May, 2019, he is the Minister of External Affairs under Narendra Modi second term Cabinet. And after that, he arranged rapid foreign trips for Modi as china was investing too much around the world and raising allies against India which was the deep concern for India’s foreign as well as defense policy. Alongside, US and Russia were engaged in Afghanistan issue, Pakistan is also trying to make footprints in the key decision makers there, US was verbally supporting India but keeping us out of the important lists and also threatening.

He well handed the abrogation of Jammu & Kashmir issue in US when he met the key administrators of Trump government Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Defence Mark Esper and the then newly-appointed National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien. Infact organizing the ‘Howdy Modi’ in US and ‘Namaste Trump’ like events were the significant change in US-Indo relationship and core examples of Jaishankar’s masterstroke in redefining foreign policies. These events were also significant in terms of sending the message to china and Pakistan friendship because over the period of years both the countries were together developed as the major threat to India.

Since then, he continues the legacy of Late Smt. Sushma Swaraj with a good pace. But in his short span of one year, he faced the major challenges when Chinese aggression was on full swing at Sikkim and then at Ladakh borders. Since 5 May, 2020 there is a continuous standoff between Indian and Chinese troops which lead the fear of war between both the countries. Although after the intervention of National Security Advisor Sh. AJit Doval, some news are in trending that both the troops are now disengaging at LAC. It might be a good diplomatic move, but Jaishankar might have learned a new lesson that Chinese can’t be trusted and even communists can’t be trusted, if we include Nepal in this list.

But still countries like US, Japan, France, are openly supporting India against Chinese aggression are the examples of his perfection. In future, he has to reset the foreign policy against china from the policy of appeasement to offensive defense, he well deserve the eight stars out of ten.