An insecure partner

US National Security Strategy raises concern

The United States (US) administration has released its 2022 National Security Strategy (NSS), which lays out the parameters within which the US will engage with the world in future. On some levels, the NSS makes for comforting reading for New Delhi, in that the country is referred to as an ally, and China as the US’ solitary “threat”. Indeed, the focus seems to be on competing with China and only on containing Russia, an attitude which will not be completely unwelcome in India in that it preserves some distance between how Moscow and Beijing are treated — a major strategic