New Delhi, March 9 -- Congress MP Manish Tewari on Monday cautioned that the current regional tensions across the globe carry the potential to escalate into a full-scale world war. Highlighting a series of global flashpoints from the Taiwan Straits to the West Asia crisis, the minister described the present geopolitical climate as "A World Adrift".

MP Manish Tewari, in a post on X, wrote, "Small Wars put together have the potential of becoming World Wars. That is how World War -1 and World War -2 became World Wars. Add to this picture the conflict between Afghanistan- Pakistan, stand-offs between India- Pakistan, India- China, Thailand -Cambodia, Tensions in Taiwan Straits and South China Sea and a Nuclearised erratic DPR Korea. It is A ...