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Relevant section :Opinion | Putin’s Ukraine War Roils U.S.-India Ties
Policies that drive Russia closer to China and Pakistan aren’t in New Delhi’s interests.www.wsj.com
First good article in US media that talks about Indian perspective. Wall street Journal is more centrist or center-right then other mainstream US publications.
Worse, from an Indian perspective, American policy isn’t helping. The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan effectively strengthened Pakistan at India’s expense and suggested that Team Biden doesn’t see Indian security as a major concern. American attempts to isolate and punish Myanmar’s junta, however morally inspiring, appear to some in Delhi to be making a bad situation worse and creating opportunities for China.
Whatever Indians think of Mr. Putin, New Delhi sees Moscow as a valuable source of weapons, an indispensable partner in Afghanistan, and, if not driven into China’s arms, a valuable counterweight to Chinese power in Central Asia and beyond. Western policies intended to weaken and impoverish Russia that drive it deeper into alliance with China, do not, many in New Delhi believe, serve India’s interests well.
There’s more. The Biden administration casts its global strategy around a struggle between enlightened liberal democracy and the nonliberal world. India’s Hindu nationalists are not enlisting in that crusade. They want to defend India’s Hindu identity, under threat in their view both from proselytizing monotheistic religions like Islam and Christianity and from a Western liberal ideology that seeks to transform communal and gender relations around the world. The more ideological Americans get about their foreign policy, the more difficult the U.S.-India relationship is likely to become.