„Both India and the EU are currently seeking contact with each other – a reaction to an increasingly tense relationship with the People’s Republic of China,“ explains Garima Mohan, Senior Fellow in the Indo-Pacific Programme of the German Marshall Fund in Berlin. This represents a significant change in India’s foreign policy, as India has long been interested in shaping the Western-dominated world order in a more pluralistic way with other BRICS countries. According to Delhi, however, China is now more interested in expanding its own power aspirations in the region, which is why India feels that it must oppose it.