Directions: In each of the questions given below, a passage has been given which are either situational based or describes a scenario. Below each passage, a question has been given which is framed to make you infer something out of it. Mark out the correct inference, as your answer.
China’s conviction that it can hurt India more than India can hurt it is at the root of its aggressive petulance. To overturn this perception naturally calls for firmness and enhanced economic and military capacity. But it also necessitates a deeper understanding of the adversary and its vulnerabilities. To successfully thwart hegemonism, we have to also overcome our knowledge deficit of China. India has to develop the mindset to play in the big league.
Which among the following can be inferred from the above passage?
In this victim hood narrative, the role of Indians as supplicants of the western powers has played a part.
The revulsion over China’s larger designs has prompted demands for a boycott of Chinese goods, services and investments.
Since decision-making in China is opaque, the understanding of its motives is speculative.