Getting India right

Policy Review

Volumn , Issue 135, 2006, Pages 43-61

  Khanna, Parag ^a  

^a NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION   (United States)

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1. As a recent Asia Foundation report, America's Role in Asia, notes, India is "unwilling to cede a dominant role to any outside power in its neighborhood, is eager to expand commercial ties with all countries, and determined to play a larger role in global trade negotiations."
2. Gareth Price, "India's Aid Dynamics: From Recipient to Donor," Chatham House Asia Program Working Paper (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, September 1004).
3. Not surprisingly, then, India was further peeved that Clinton enlisted China's Jiang Zemin in June 1998 to publicly bash India's " irresponsible" nuclear tests even though, as then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee explained in a letter to President Clinton, China was the motivating concern for the Indian tests, with Pakistan's counter-tests being an unfortunate byproduct.
4. As Christine Fair writes, "India stands out in the landscape of potential partners. It has the largest army of any democratic country, a highly regarded, well-trained, and professional army that has operational flexibility and niche warfare capabilities. . . . Notably, India has a well-honed and exceptional high-altitude warfare capability, of which few countries can boast." C. Christine Fair, "U.S.-Indian Army-to-Army Relations: Prospects for Future Coalition Operations," Asian Security 1:2, (April 1005).
5. Meghnad Desai, "India business surrendered 20th century," India Abroad (December 3, 2004).