India is the prime alternative to China, for low cost manufactured goods. They have long been at a guns drawn condition against China in the North (Siachen Glacier), and China is the main sponsor of India’s nemesis, Pakistan.
In reality, India’s population has probably now passed that of China. Their growth rate is higher, and their demographic (age) distribution is much more favorable to future growth than is China’s, because of China’s disastrous “One Child” policy, which will be a drag on China for the next 20 years.
India is also a front line state, in confronting the threats from islamic extremism.
They are the world’s second largest producer of Ph.D.s, after the USA - and the topics of those Ph.D.s are strongly skewed toward the hard sciences and technologies of the future.
Only the USA has the capability to provide the market, investment and technology to optimize India’s development, and only democratic India has the mix of characteristics to supplant communist China for the world’s low cost manufacturing base.
We are witnessing a global re-alignment, of profound significance to humanity’s future - away from totalitarian domination by Chinese communists.
Agreed. It’s a great, natural partnership.
Very well stated comments! Thanks, BB.