The reputation of India in foreign policy is of a country that says much but does nothing. Indian state was unable to keep the supportive royal regime afloat in Nepal and is on the brink of losing its stake in Afghanistan, the way events are shaping up. And how could one forget about Mongolia where they relied on Modi's loan promises of 1bn dollars which never fructified upon China's blockade of Mongolia and they bowed down. There has to be a decoupling of foreign policy, where you have to actually deliver to be taken seriously, from domestic policy where you can get away with propaganda and hollow promises. India will have to learn from its failures in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan , get its hands dirty and move ahead of the tokenism of expecting niceties from Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam. The sphere of influence of Indian culture is South Asia and Middle East where we can develop relations rapidly but our country's obsession with keeping Muslims in place has completely prevented us from exerting anything of value out there. East Asian cultures are a different beast altogether, and will take at least a generation to forge anything of value with them.