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Fear of a rampant China, brings India and US in a strategic embrace

India and the US are in a full embrace. Old hypocrisies are history and supreme national interest has once again driven a strategic choice

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Shekhar Gupta
The coming week begins with the arrival of US Secretaries of State and Defense, Mike Pompeo and Mark Esper, in New Delhi. Now, these 2+2 talks have been an ongoing process for some time. Whatever the struggles and niggles on trade, India-US strategic ties have grown phenomenally. So, what’s so special about next week?

It is the timing. This will be just a week before the US presidential elections and probably even the results. How do the two most important members of the US administration fly all the way to India, in times of the pandemic, for what could be
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