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Detailed explanation-1: -Shivshankar Menon is a former Foreign Secretary of India and was National Security Advisor to prime minister Manmohan Singh.

Detailed explanation-2: -India is today in the midst of a major geopolitical repositioning, as it discards its old non-aligned movement rhetoric, pursues a hard headed national interests based policy and builds stronger strategic ties with a wide range of countries including the United States and its allies in the region, especially Japan.

Detailed explanation-3: -Central Asia provided the ‘silk route’ for China, India, and Europe . In the post- Cold War period of globalization and multi-polarity, there is enormous scope for a convergence of interests between India and the Central Asian republics.

Detailed explanation-4: -Geopolitics explains how countries, businesses, terrorist groups, etc. try to reach their political goals by controlling geographic features of the world. We call these features geographical entities. Geographical entities are the places, regions, territories, scales, and networks that make up the world.

Detailed explanation-5: -Geopolitics: is defined as the struggle over the control of geographical entities with an international and global dimension, and the use of such geographical entities for political advantage.