Multi-alignment, upgraded

With US ties strained and China tense, New Delhi taps Europes harder edge for co-development, clean tech and strategic autonomy, writes Manoj Menon India is recalibrating its great-power hedging as frictions with Washington collide with an enduring rivalry with Beijing and a legacy partnership with Moscow. The trigger has been a sharper, more transactional posture from the US under Donald Trumptariff threats, disputes over Russia-related energy purchases and unwelcome commentary on IndiaPakistan flare-ups. Yet New Delhis answer is not a wholesale pivot. Instead, it is doubling down on multi-alignment: widening options, reducing single-point dependency and looking to Europe for risk-balancing