Senior member of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) National Executive, Subramanian Swamy has called for a strategic partnership among India, China and the United States to promote world peace.

Speaking at the 2015 World Peace Forum Conference hosted by Tsinghua University, Dr. Swamy said that a new global power paradigm has emerged. It is underscored by the U.S, China and India jointly accounting for 43 per cent of the global population, leadership in GDP contribution in PPP rates of exchange, and possession of the three largest armed forces.

The three countries have also emerged as the drivers of global economic growth. “This scenario is vastly different from the one that prevailed just post-World War II, and prevailed for about four decades since then,” he observed.

Dr. Swamy stressed that the new paradigm shift demands the movement of “the post-War global power structure ossified presently in the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, to a new dispensation of international power structure in which China and India are recognised as emergent economies of global reach.”

The rise of religion-based terrorism, dominated by radical religion-driven forces and facilitated by cyber technology, reinforces the emergence of a new paradigm in the partnership of nations, Dr. Swamy observed.

In order to facilitate a New Delhi-Beijing-Washington strategic alignment, Dr. Swamy said that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi “could become inclined to explore the possibility of an annual trilateral India-China-US summit meet, not only to discuss global security matters, but also regional issues”.

The BJP leader advocated major adjustments in US foreign policy if the proposed triangular partnership is to emerge. He stressed that it was “imperative” that the “U.S restructure its foreign policy to recognise the need to structure a U.S-China-India Triangle, and share global strategic responsibility with India and China”.

He added that the growing awareness in Washington “has structural limitations in a globalised world and it ought to motivate search for allies and to 'outsource’ some of its security concerns to India and China”.

Dr. Swamy observed that India and China in their self-perceptions are rising powers, playing a central role in a “polycentric” multi-polar international community. “The mainstream view in India is to engage with China in a substantial and nuanced strategic alliance,” he added.

In forging a strategic triangle, the U.S would have to ensure that it “it tilts” towards either India or China. “The US should ensure that India and China have access to its market, advanced technology and Research and Development innovations, so that Sino-Indian economic distance does not widen,” he observed.