US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s 3-day visit to New Delhi, starting Tuesday, may give India and US a chance to sort out some of the irritants in their ties.
The Triangular Cooperation for Global Development pact provides a framework for promoting bilateral cooperation to meet the developmental aspirations of partner countries.
Kenneth Juster’s Twitter feed, teeming with posts about the sport, are a world away from recent tensions in India-US ties over Trump’s rejection of the Iran nuclear deal, and defence buys from Russia.
In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.
To be perfectly honest, India and the United States are not a marriage made in heaven. All of Asia – barring Pakistan and North Korea – is troubled by the rise of China. That shared concern is not cement enough to create the defining partnership of the 21st century and all the high sounding phrases that are uttered at the time of each summit. The whole world has profited from access to the US market. For India, it has sustained our IT industry, made it a global success story. However, India has missed the bus that a succession of Asian economies, starting with Japan and going all the way up to China, forty years later, have ridden to export led prosperity. Still a good, possibly even the best, friend. However, a complex relationship that is under considerable strain now.
To be perfectly honest, India and the United States are not a marriage made in heaven. All of Asia – barring Pakistan and North Korea – is troubled by the rise of China. That shared concern is not cement enough to create the defining partnership of the 21st century and all the high sounding phrases that are uttered at the time of each summit. The whole world has profited from access to the US market. For India, it has sustained our IT industry, made it a global success story. However, India has missed the bus that a succession of Asian economies, starting with Japan and going all the way up to China, forty years later, have ridden to export led prosperity. Still a good, possibly even the best, friend. However, a complex relationship that is under considerable strain now.