Yoginder K. AlaghPosted How India's participation at WTO and G8 is hampered by lack of vision Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is reported to have expressed disappointment on the structure of the G8 meetings, where India was invited along with the others in the Outreach 5. A Japanese diplomat apparently said that the meeting is becoming a joke, with the Outreach becoming a trade union. While China has always claimed that it validates its global position by pursuing the interest of the third world, it has certainly steadfastly pursued its own global interest. In fact, it has made an art of pursuing both as two sides of the same coin and in that sense has followed the received core of Indian foreign policy. It is possible, necessary and in fact very productive for India to represent and pursue its own and larger interests at the high table, which in fact it can do in an inventive manner rather than mouthing clich