NEW DELHI: The renowned Indian newspaper The Hindu has declared 2025 as the year of failures and defeats in Indian foreign policy.
The Indian newspaper The Hindu has declared the country’s foreign policy in 2025 as a year of broken promises due to unfulfilled expectations. According to the newspaper, symbolic diplomacy, personal relationships and narrative creation could not be a substitute for real economic, military and diplomatic power.
The Hindu report states that India made promises not only to itself but also to partners that it did not have the influence and power to implement.
The newspaper wrote that 2025 proved to be the most difficult year for India in this century, facing 25 percent tariffs, additional restrictions on Russian oil and H-1B visa restrictions. Compared to 2017, India has been reduced to a limited role in the US National Security Strategy of 2025.
The Hindu report said that despite all the high-level meetings with China and Russia, no concrete security progress could be made on the Line of Actual Control, and as a result of US pressure, India had to back down from its stance on the Russian oil issue.
The Hindu newspaper called the Pahalgam false flag operation a serious security failure and admitted that Indian military operations after the Pahalgam attack did not receive global diplomatic support.
The Indian newspaper wrote that the silence on the losses of aircraft after the Indian operation damaged India’s reputation, while the announcement of a mutual defense agreement between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan was an additional blow to India.
Indian analysts have now come to consider Pakistan’s leadership “hard-line and capable of organizing”, and relations between India and Bangladesh have reached their most tense level ever.
According to the newspaper, India’s blaming others is the biggest obstacle to reform and realistic policymaking.
