For nearly a quarter century, a rare bipartisan consensus guided American policy toward India. Washington believed that helping the world¡¯s largest democracy become stronger ¡ª economically, technologically and militarily ¡ª served U.S. interests by creating a durable counterweight to an increasingly assertive China.
Washington¡¯s India consensus is now quietly unraveling.
The clearest indication came not from a leaked strategy paper but from U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau speaking in New Delhi. that Washington ¡°will not repeat its China mistake,¡± Landau said the U.S. would not allow India to ¡°develop all these markets¡± only to outcompete America commercially.
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