In light of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's trip to India, CDU foreign affairs expert Norbert Röttgen has called on the federal government to supply the country with weapons to reduce its dependence on Moscow.
Indian feel China her safety is threatened and she wants to leave with him Russia it has no additional opponents, also because it relies on energy and weapons from Moscow, Röttgen told the German editorial network (RND). He demanded: “We must reduce India's dependence on Russian arms supplies by supplying it ourselves and reduce our economic dependence on China by expanding economic ties with India.”
Röttgen also said: “This is the condition of India's foreign policy framework, but we can certainly try to influence it. To achieve this, India's strategic importance to Germany must finally become visible.” Scholz will travel with several ministers to the seventh German-Indian government consultation in New Delhi on Thursday.