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India now a new Geopolitical ally of United States similar to that of Israel ready to defend joint interests against Islamic Jihadists and economic tiger China
The Bush-Singh summit confirmed it – India now is the new much larger “Israel” for United States ready to stop Islamic Jihadists militarily and contain China economically.
The Indo-American relationship did not develop out of the subjective good will of the leaders. The Sept. 11 attacks created a dynamic that couldn''t be resisted, and that created a reality that the Bush-Singh summit confirmed. India needed America and America needed India.
Sino-U.S. relations are deteriorating fairly rapidly. There was much speculation about India being an Asian counterweight to China. The United States doesn''t need a nuclear counterweight to China, and China is very far from becoming a major naval power capable of projecting force outside of its regional waters. The nuclear technology agreement that Singh obtained in Washington increases the likelihood that China is not going to project force west of Singapore. That helps India for its security and dominance in the South Asia region.
As the Sino-U.S. relationship deteriorates; India can be a counterweight to China -- not in a military sense, but in an economic sense. If the United States has an economic alternative to China for investment, Washington develops leverage in its talks with Beijing on a host of issues. China, after all, still courts investment -- even as the Chinese buy anything that isn''t Chinese.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in Washington and has addressed a joint session of Congress. Most visiting heads of government don''t get that privilege, but Singh is no ordinary leader. The Indo-American relationship is emerging as one of the foundations of the global system. For the United States, India -- particularly since 9/11 -- has come to represent a strategic partner in the U.S.-jihadist war: By its very existence as a U.S. ally, it serves to keep the pressure for cooperation very high on rival Pakistan.
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