Red carpet welcome for Modi as US-India ties set to deepen

WASHINGTON – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States this week will be high on crowd-pleasing symbolism – a yoga session at the United Nations in New York, an address to the joint chambers of Congress in Washington DC on Thursday, and a lavish state dinner the same night.

The US is friendly ground for Mr Modi, despite him being banned from getting a visa during a previous role as Chief Minister of Gujarat, on questions over a 2002 massacre in that state. Citing a degree of trust and confidence between the countries that did not exist a decade ago, Mr Kurt Campbell, the administration’s Indo-Pacific czar, said at the Hudson Institute in June: “My hope is that this visit basically consecrates the US-India relationship as the most important bilateral relationship with the United States on the global stage.”

There are also limits to India’s commitments in terms of security, analysts say. Dr Ashley Tellis, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote last month in Foreign Affairs that India’s weaknesses compared with China, and its inescapable proximity to it, “guarantee that New Delhi will never involve itself in any US confrontation with Beijing that does not directly threaten its own security.

US President Joe Biden meeting India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on Sept 24, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS India may also buy MQ-9B Predator armed drones from American company General Atomics, which will enhance its capacity to monitor Chinese troop movements on the disputed Himalayan border, as well as ships at sea.

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