EAM Jaishankar calls for ‘national security filter’ for economic decisions

NEW DELHI: There is a need to place “national security filters” for economic decisions, including those relating to investment, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday, in remarks that came amid increasing global concerns over China’s aggressive trade practices.

“Like it or not, we are increasingly in an era of leveraging, if not of weaponization. Policy makers, therefore, have to place national security filters when it comes to economic decisions, including those of investment,” he said.

“This is the trend the world over and we would ignore it at our own peril,” Jaishankar said in an address at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Partnership Summit 2024.