Tracing the arc of the US-India relationship
4 years ago

Tracing the arc of the US-India relationship

India Today  

NOTE: This section takes an in-depth look at one book and recommends related reads. President Harry Truman, who didn’t accept non-alignment as a credible foreign policy stance, thought India was using that as cover for communist sympathies. Though Nehru had warned America that arms would be used against India, his frosty relations with then-acting ambassador to India, George Allen, meant that India’s concerns never actually reached Washington. When Indira Gandhi, who became the prime minister of the country after Shastri’s death, visited Moscow and signed a joint communique criticising US policy in Vietnam, the Lyndon B. Johnson administration decided to penalise India. Other titles to watch out for India’s World: How Prime Ministers Shaped Foreign Policy by Rajiv Dogra Due February 2021 Former diplomat Rajiv Dogra looks at how eight prime ministers shaped India’s rise on the world stage.

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The Evolution of U.S.-India Relations: From Scepticism to Strategic Alliance
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Evolution of U.S.-India Relations: From Scepticism to Strategic Alliance

India Today  

The article explores the evolution of U.S.-India relations over the decades, highlighting the shifting approaches of presidents and the impact of historical events on the bilateral partnership. From Clinton's strategic engagement to Bush's nuclear landmark agreement, the relationship has undergone significant transformations. Obama's outreach and Carter's cautious approach have shaped the current dynamic, with both nations acknowledging their shared values …

Transforming Ties: India's Evolving Foreign Policy Towards China and Other Neighbours
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2 months ago

Transforming Ties: India's Evolving Foreign Policy Towards China and Other Neighbours

Firstpost  

India's evolving foreign policy towards China and other neighbors is evident in the recent development of a significant agreement between the two countries on a comprehensive economic and maritime security partnership. This move signifies India's ability to adapt its foreign policy to suit changing circumstances and prioritize its interests, despite facing challenges from China's assertive posture. The agreement also highlights …

China and Russia concerned about growing India-US relationship, says top American diplomat
3 months, 1 week ago

China and Russia concerned about growing India-US relationship, says top American diplomat

India TV News  

Washington: Richard Verma, the US Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, asserted that China and Russia were concerned about the growing India-US relationship because the latter promotes inclusivity, peace and the peaceful resolution of disputes. Verma further said the uniqueness of India-US relations is why President Joe Biden has described it as the "defining relationship of this century". …

The View From India newsletter: Is all well in Indo-U.S. partnership?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

The View From India newsletter: Is all well in Indo-U.S. partnership?

The Hindu  

Earlier in July, immediately after Prime Minister Modi wrapped up a bilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, since first visit to Russia since the Ukraine war began in february 2022, the U.S.’s Ambassador in India made a rare public criticism of India’s Russia policy. In Washington DC, the State Department also expressed “concerns” over India’s ties with …

India-US partnership: Deeper but challenges of mutual expectations remain
8 months, 3 weeks ago

India-US partnership: Deeper but challenges of mutual expectations remain

Times of India  

S D Pradhan has served as chairman of India's Joint Intelligence Committee. Pakistan is using financial aid from the US and others for its terrorist activities, which directly impacts India’s security. Fifth, while both countries have different views on the Ukraine-Russia conflict and West Asia, India does not like to be pressured to toe the US policy. As the US …

‘Nehru was against America’: Jaishankar on foreign policies under Congress govt in 1950s
9 months ago

‘Nehru was against America’: Jaishankar on foreign policies under Congress govt in 1950s

Hindustan Times  

External affairs minister S Jaishankar, at a summit on Wednesday, comparing the governance under former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and PM Narendra Modi said that India needed to “get out of the cult worship where anything from 1946 till pick-your-year were great years and everything went splendidly, everything that went wrong other people were to blame”. Companies are audited, after …

India standing up to a bully in a very determined fashion: Defence Secretary on China
10 months ago

India standing up to a bully in a very determined fashion: Defence Secretary on China

The Hindu  

Stating that the possibility that India “may encounter” a similar situation as the 2020 standoff with China, is “keeping us active all the time”, Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane said on Wednesday that “we are standing against a bully in a very determined fashion.” Acknowledging the quick intelligence support from the U.S., he said the “strong resolve that we support each …

‘China may have concluded India is now tilting to the U.S.’
11 months ago

‘China may have concluded India is now tilting to the U.S.’

The Hindu  

China may have concluded that India is tilting towards the U.S. “rather than maintaining relative neutrality” on China-U.S. rivalry, according to Vijay Gokhale, former Foreign Secretary, Ambassador to China, and author of the new book Crosswinds: Nehru, Zhou and the Anglo-American Competition over China which examines various aspects of India’s relations with the U.S., Britain and China in the 1950s. …

Tracing the strategic dimensions of India-Russia relations
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Tracing the strategic dimensions of India-Russia relations

Hindustan Times  

India-Russia relations have gone through a number of phases since their formal establishment in April 1947. The Soviet Union would emerge as a critical partner for India, using its veto power multiple times at the UN Security Council on issues related to Goa, Kashmir, and Bangladesh. By 1991, the Soviet Union had become India’s largest trading partner and bilateral trade …

India-U.S. relationship has moved in a positive direction, says USISPF chief
1 year ago

India-U.S. relationship has moved in a positive direction, says USISPF chief

The Hindu  

The relationship between India and the U.S. has moved in a positive direction ranging from trade to defence and the two nations have shown a sense of deep understating of each other's differences, the head of a top India-centric business and strategic group has said. "When you look at it from the geopolitical QUAD perspective, there's more alignment between the …

Rise of China, its assertiveness in Indo-Pacific region shaped Indo-US relationship: former Foreign Secretary
1 year, 1 month ago

Rise of China, its assertiveness in Indo-Pacific region shaped Indo-US relationship: former Foreign Secretary

The Hindu  

The rise of China, and its assertiveness, especially in the Indo-Pacific region, has shaped the relationship between India and the U.S. in various sectors such as technology, manufacturing, defence and environment, former Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said on Wednesday. Speaking on ‘India’s place in the changing world’ at the Luminary Lecture Series organised by the Christian Medical College, Ms. Rao …

With Deals for Drones & Jet Engines, India's Talks With US Boost Defence Sector
1 year, 6 months ago

With Deals for Drones & Jet Engines, India's Talks With US Boost Defence Sector

The Quint  

Every bilateral summit builds on the progress made in past decades and the India-US defence relationship is illustrative of this. The post-Cold War foundation for anchoring the then ‘estranged’ India-US partnership was laid by the economic liberalisation ushered in by PM Narasimha Rao in the early 1990s, and infused with traction by the May 1998 nuclear tests under the stewardship …

Rahul Gandhi on China: India cannot be ‘pushed around’
1 year, 6 months ago

Rahul Gandhi on China: India cannot be ‘pushed around’

Live Mint  

Rahul Gandhi has emphasised that India will not be swayed by China and stressed that the relationship between the two nations is expected to be challenging in the coming years. The ongoing border standoff in eastern Ladakh has further strained bilateral ties, with India emphasising the importance of border peace for a normal bilateral relationship. Highlighting the significance of India's …

India-U.S. relations based on common desires of peaceful and prosperous Indo-Pacific region: U.S. Ambassador Garcetti
1 year, 7 months ago

India-U.S. relations based on common desires of peaceful and prosperous Indo-Pacific region: U.S. Ambassador Garcetti

The Hindu  

The relationship between India and the United States is based on a common desire to have stronger economies and a peaceful, prosperous Indo-Pacific region, and the two countries stand together wherever it is challenged, U.S. The two countries are an important part of a mutual strategy to protect the Indo-Pacific region and keep people safe, he said. Mr. Garcetti also …

'US-India relations based on mutual desire for stronger economies': American envoy Eric Garcetti
1 year, 7 months ago

'US-India relations based on mutual desire for stronger economies': American envoy Eric Garcetti

Firstpost  

The US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti said on Monday that India and US share a relationship that is based on a common desire to have stronger economies and a peaceful Indo-Pacific region. Commenting on how electronic modes of payments helped empower Indian people from the bottom up, Garcetti said, “We want to see technology as a positive thing in …

'India is a friend. Pakistan is not': What George W Bush told Barack Obama in secret memos
1 year, 10 months ago

'India is a friend. Pakistan is not': What George W Bush told Barack Obama in secret memos

Firstpost  

Newly declassified memos reveal how the world appeared to a departing George W Bush administration. “They were designed to provide the incoming administration with what they needed to know about the most critical foreign policy and national security issues they would face,” Bush wrote in a foreword to the book. While Bush’s agreement called for a 2011 withdrawal, the memo …

Ties with India ‘exceptionally deep’, says U.S. State Department spokesperson after BBC documentary row
1 year, 11 months ago

Ties with India ‘exceptionally deep’, says U.S. State Department spokesperson after BBC documentary row

The Hindu  

The United States has a close relationship with India and has taken up issues with India in case there are developments that the U.S. disapproves of, said U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price. To a question from a Pakistani journalist regarding the BBC documentary on the Gujarat riots of 2002, Mr. Price did not offer comments about the documentary but …

US partnering with India to enable it to play 'broader stabilising role' in Indo-Pacific region: Pentagon
2 years, 1 month ago

US partnering with India to enable it to play 'broader stabilising role' in Indo-Pacific region: Pentagon

Firstpost  

The US will partner India to help New Delhi play a “broader stabilising role” in the strategic Indo-Pacific region, a senior defence official from the Pentagon has said. Washington: The US will partner India to help New Delhi play a “broader stabilising role” in the strategic Indo-Pacific region, a senior defence official from the Pentagon has said. “As India is …

The middle path for India in the new world disorder
2 years, 6 months ago

The middle path for India in the new world disorder

The Hindu  

Since the end of the Second World War, the global order has seen two major transitions. While many governments, including India, Russia and China, welcome multipolarity, the U.S. remains the world’s most powerful military power. While China poses serious challenges to India’s maritime influence, in continental Asia, India sees a different set of challenges, especially after the U.S. withdrawal from …

How India changed direction of its engagement with major powers: From non-alignment to multi-alignment
3 years ago

How India changed direction of its engagement with major powers: From non-alignment to multi-alignment

Firstpost  

In India, some foreign policy analysts declared non-alignment 2.0 to demonstrate the nation’s strategic autonomy. However, the slow but steady evolution of India-US strategic partnership made the non-alignment strategy moribund for all practical purposes Russian President Vladimir Putin’s five-hour visit to India and ten-year extension of a military agreement, among other things, raise questions over the strength of India-US strategic …

Why US-China ties are showing signs of thawing and what it means for India
3 years, 1 month ago

Why US-China ties are showing signs of thawing and what it means for India

Firstpost  

US-China economic interdependence is too deep and intense to allow the two countries to pursue traditional Cold War strategies. The US-China political confrontations over Chinese treatment of Uighur population in Xinjiang, destruction of democracy in Hong Kong, flexing of naval muscles by the PRC navy in the South China Sea and the East China Sea, Chinese strongman Xi Jinping’s threats …

India’s fate is tied to the rest of the world
3 years, 4 months ago

India’s fate is tied to the rest of the world

The Hindu  

Ever since Independence, India’s fate has been closely tied to the rest of the world. India’s early efforts were arguably successful in consolidating territorial gains, in accelerating economic growth, and in positioning itself in a leadership role in the post-colonial world. At the same time, efforts at normalising ties with Pakistan were frustrated by the Kargil war, the hijacking of …

Stanly Johny reviews India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present, by Shivshankar Menon
3 years, 7 months ago

Stanly Johny reviews India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present, by Shivshankar Menon

The Hindu  

Independent India’s foreign policy, according to Shivshankar Menon, has gone through three geopolitical phases and their transitions. Menon, who was the Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser and Foreign Secretary, is exploring these phases in their historical context to tell the story of how India weathered the many geopolitical storms of the past in his latest book, India and Asian Geopolitics: …

Ties with U.S. have strong bipartisan support: India
4 years, 1 month ago

Ties with U.S. have strong bipartisan support: India

The Hindu  

India on Friday reiterated that ties with the United States enjoy strong bipartisan support. Official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said India was waiting for the result of the U.S. Presidential election and maintained that ties had become better over the years because of cross party consensus in Washington DC regarding India. The comprehensive global strategic …

The shifting trajectory of India’s foreign policy
4 years, 1 month ago

The shifting trajectory of India’s foreign policy

The Hindu  

The Third India-U.S. 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue between the Foreign and Defence Ministers of India and the U.S. The centrepiece of the dialogue was the signing of the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-Spatial Cooperation, which marked India’s entry as a full member into the select category of nations entitled to receive highly classified U.S. defence and intelligence information. Even …

India’s foreign relations and the course of history
4 years, 5 months ago

India’s foreign relations and the course of history

The Hindu  

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public and undisguised reference to China’s expansionism in his address to Indian troops last week, on July 3 in Ladakh was so obvious that the Chinese lost no time in rejecting the allegation. As proof of China’s non-expansionism, their spokesman, denying the charge, said that China had signed boundary agreements with all but two of …

China policy lacks perspicacity
4 years, 6 months ago

China policy lacks perspicacity

The Hindu  

There is an uncanny resemblance between what is going on now on the India-China border with the events in the run-up to the 1962 war. China’s strategic objectives In both cases New Delhi failed to fully understand China’s fundamental strategic objectives regarding India. Watch | India-China border standoff explained New Delhi has compounded its failure by indulging in reckless rhetoric …

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