India

There are more questions in the last six months about India’s commitment to democracy than we’ve really seen in the history of the U.S.-Indian relationship. The good news for India is that the last person in the world likely to raise any of these issues is Donald Trump.

Today, it is a truth almost universally acknowledged that China drives and shapes US-India relations. Indeed, broad convergence on China has been a key driver of US-India relations for the last two decades across US administrations and across Indian governments... China’s role in shaping the US-India relationship was not just a recent phenomenon restricted to kind of the last few decades. Indeed, what I found and this book lays out was that China’s influence went back the early years of Indian independence.