Posted on 08/30/2023 5:33:38 AM PDT by Cronos
... “In the cold war, India could walk a middle path because it had no major disputes with either the US or the Soviet Union, and play each other off against each other,Today it can’t do that with the US and China.”
Officials and analysts say the nascent US-India strategic alignment is being driven by commercial and defence imperatives related to Beijing. ... India has for years been steadily moving closer to the US and other western countries on arms purchases and defence ties, and officials say the momentum is growing.
“We were strangers in defence co-operation at the turn of the century,” Modi said in Thursday’s address. “Now, the United States has become one of our most important defence partners.”
... One factor focusing Indian policymakers’ minds is friction along their country’s nearly 3,500km long border with China.
In 2020 India suffered casualties during clashes in and around the Galwan valley in eastern Ladakh, when at least 24 troops, mostly Indians, were killed. Chinese forces have now pushed India out of at least two areas where they formerly patrolled.
Another clash between Indian and Chinese troops in India’s far north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh in December resulted in injuries on both sides. In talks with China aimed at defusing the stand-off, India has made it clear it will not resume normal relations until the status quo at the border is restored.
India has also pushed back against Chinese tech.
Today India does more joint military exercises with the US than with any other country. In 2022 it undertook a high-altitude exercise with US troops in its northern Uttarakhand state near the border, which China protested. In 2021 the two sides did a similar joint exercise in Alaska.
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India should beware of Biden and Obama. They seem to be joined at the hip with China.
IMO, it is India that is a bigger threat to the US than say, Russia or China, in the long run. India has 10% of the world’s Muslims.
End H-1B first then we can talk our “relationship”.
Neither Russia nor China presently has anything to offer India.
America and others offer trade. India needs trade.
We also have more IT projects.
Too true. India is infiltrating the United States with the help of monolithic, multinational corporations.
America doesn't need anymore trade. Make it here, do it now. Or kiss America good-bye.
Also, they've almost learned to speak English. Might be harder to almost speak russian at this point.
I think India’s just patiently waiting for Trump to return.
They know they’re going to be used as a proxy in a war against China.
As a neo isolationist, you have no authority to make such a statement. There is a world beyond the perimeter of your rock and American business and industry thrive on the trade with that world.
Americans have been world traders since before they were Americans
Oh,did I mention Taiwan?
Modi and Trump had a close relationship
India may have 10% of the world’s muslims, but it is a majority Hindu country.
And Hindus really, really dislike Muslims - I mean the Jewish dislike for Muslims is super mild compared to the Hindu hatred for Islam
Yes,I think that H-1B visas stink to high heavens. But they’re not India’s fault. They’re the fault of Rats who are looking for new voters and RINOs who are looking for cheap labor. A lot like our southern border.
H1B is a US visa type. India can’t end it - it is the US who can do that
And BRICS is dead.
I hear you. But that 10% is over 100,000,000 of the World’s Muslims. India has either outpaced China in population or is slated to do so very soon.
It’s already there.
Current India population: 1,430,734,323
Current China population: 1,425,594,417
I remember a story posted here a month or two ago when it happened.
There are 2,000 million Muslims globally
India has 197 million Muslims - so approx 10% as you stated.
That is 14.23% of the Indian population is Muslim
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