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The 21st-century world is increasingly becoming multipolar and is unlikely to return to bipolarity, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said here on Tuesday, predicting that a strategic appreciation of the emerging global landscape would bring India and the US closer. Preparing for a more competitive and complex era will require a different mindset and for a nation like India, it would be in addition to changes induced by its climb up the global power hierarchy, Jaishankar told a Washington audience in a major foreign policy speech “Preparing for a Different Era”.

The minister was addressing the gathering at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a top American think-tank. As a broad approach, it will lead to the primacy of long-term thinking over short-term calculations, he said, adding it would encourage undertaking deep structural changes and ambitious socio-economic initiatives that can transform both habits and attitudes. “In this world, what are presumed to be intractable challenges will have to be addressed, not ducked,” he said, citing recent changes in Jammu and Kashmir as an example to this approach.