NAM Redux?

While India will seek ‘strategic independence‘ it will simultaneously seek connection and engagement with all and sundry, cutting across varied and competing ‘blocs‘. China as the master of realpolitik has demonstrated the real value in keeping its own gunpowder dry and in quietly increasing its own stockpile when its rivals (US and Russia) were busy burning their own resources to no good use in the battlefields of the Middle East, Afghanistan or even Ukraine