New Delhi, April 11 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday while speaking at the Carnegie Global Tech Summit said that the world is bracing for a period of sharp competition and contestation.

Jaishankar said that further collaboration between different countries, like US and China was like a Goldilocks problem.

"And then even worse, deep collaboration between US and China and being at the wrong end of it. So, you know, neither situation for us. So it's kind of like a Goldilocks problem, you know. So you want, ideally, a kind of an optimal situation. They're not going to oblige the rest of the world," he said.

He said that everything was personal, and the dynamics were not just about trade anymore," he said.

"It's going to...