Germany and India are on two different continents and are geographically far apart, but they both value each other very much. This can be seen very clearly in Mr. Scholz's trip to India. Mr. Modi went to Russia to attend this year's annual summit of the BRICS group, returned to India just to welcome and hold talks with Mr. Scholz, the India-Germany intergovernmental meeting, and then immediately went to Russia to attend the BRICS group's activities with partner countries. Mr. Scholz brought nearly half of the German government members to India, right before that, the German government announced a strategic document titled "Focus on India", a type of strategic orientation for cooperation that the German government has never determined with any partner country.
On the agenda of Mr. Scholz's talks in India were all big issues for both sides and world politics: economic cooperation and trade exchanges, attracting highly skilled Indian workers to work in Germany, and cooperation in education, training, military and defense cooperation, and world politics.
Mr. Modi wants India to win back and raise the flag of leading the global South, so he must create and strengthen India's position among the major countries and take advantage of other developed industrial countries. Among them, Germany is the most favorable and suitable partner. Germany needs India's highly skilled labor force, needs India's market of nearly 1.5 billion consumers, and needs to pull India toward the West to deal with Russia and China. The longer the conflict in Ukraine lasts, the more fiercely Russia and the West oppose each other, and the more difficult the relationship between the West and China becomes, the more Germany and India need each other and must take advantage of each other.
