US President Donald Trump hugs visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in 2017. A report on America’s Indo-Pacific strategy notes that the US and India maintain a “broad-based strategic partnership” and asserts that this has “strengthened significantly during the past two decades, based on a convergence of strategic interests”. Photo: Reuters
US President Donald Trump hugs visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in 2017. A report on America’s Indo-Pacific strategy notes that the US and India maintain a “broad-based strategic partnership” and asserts that this has “strengthened significantly during the past two decades, based on a convergence of strategic interests”. Photo: Reuters
C. Uday Bhaskar
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C. Uday Bhaskar

Wary of China, India draws closer to the US – just not too close, as the loss of its special trade status shows

  • The punitive trade move comes even as the US publicly embraces India as a key partner in its Indo-Pacific strategy against China. The contradictory moves are part of a long and uneasy alliance between the two countries

C. Uday Bhaskar
C. Uday Bhaskar

Updated: 8:43pm, 6 Jun, 2019

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US President Donald Trump hugs visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in 2017. A report on America’s Indo-Pacific strategy notes that the US and India maintain a “broad-based strategic partnership” and asserts that this has “strengthened significantly during the past two decades, based on a convergence of strategic interests”. Photo: Reuters
US President Donald Trump hugs visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in 2017. A report on America’s Indo-Pacific strategy notes that the US and India maintain a “broad-based strategic partnership” and asserts that this has “strengthened significantly during the past two decades, based on a convergence of strategic interests”. Photo: Reuters
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