India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy, launched with great fanfare by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has failed to yield the desired results. Instead, the country has seen five of its allies drift closer to China in the past decade. India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy, launched with great fanfare by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has failed to yield the desired results. Instead, the country has seen five of its allies drift closer to China in the past decade.