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India Is a Flashpoint in the China-U.S. Cold War
The threat posed by Beijing has the Modi government slowly shedding the nation’s history of nonalignment.
Howdy, Modi.
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Fourth in a series oncountries at the center of the U.S.-China rivalry. Read part one here, part two here, part three here and part five here.
The danger for U.S. in Southeast Asia, as I explained previously in this series, is that a longstanding alliance is in jeopardy. The opportunity for the U.S. in South Asia is that a powerful new alignment is coalescing. A state that is pivotal not just regionally but globally, India, has been gradually shedding its Cold War tradition of neutralism and embracing greater cooperation with America.