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Aparna Pande is Research Fellow and Director, India Initiative at the Washington-DC based Hudson Institute. Her books include ‘Escaping India: Explaining Pakistan’s Foreign Policy’ (Routledge, 2011), ‘From Chanakya to Modi: The Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy’ (Harper Collins, 2017) and 'Making India Great: The Promise of a Reluctant Global Power' (Harper Collins, 2020).
Both nations have a population of more than one billion … It is coming down to that now. 2. The idea that India is a natural foil to China is not devoid of merit. However, India has allowed itself, through diffidence in undertaking serious economic reforms – read Ruchir Sharma’s laudatory column about Vietnam in NYT – to fall too far behind China for any kind of meaningful parity to be created. Quad cannot make up for our domestic frailties. 3. America, like everyone else, will sup with anyone who advances their interests. Confidence in democracy, tolerance for diversity … That has always been India’s calling card for the West. Consider how we continue to sag in every Index that measures the health of democracy. Not just because the Democrats attach greater weight to these attributes, for its own sake India should arrest its slide to what need not be spelt out.
First India learn to live for ourselves, Not others. You people are living in Illusion world. India America relationship cannot be dictating even Democratic President will come or Trump will continue. For India it is our internet first.