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Most Indians still feel that US giving India short shrift | A majority of Indians across the United States feel that President Barack Obama gave too much deference to China during his recent Asia trip, and thus created
doubts about whether Washington is on India's side, reports the Christian Science Monitor. With Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh scheduled to meet President
Obama at the White House Tuesday, there is a view in the Indian community that
India would want to know if the Bush administration's recognition of it as the
world's largest democracy and as a like-minded partner in a region of extremist
threats and authoritarian governance was just a quirk, to be replaced by closer
US ties to China. "Now we need to test the US-India reality," says C. Raja Mohan,
an Indian foreign-policy expert who is a scholar at the Library of Congress. Obama
and Singh are expected to announce joint programs in areas from education to clean
energy and security. Intelligence sharing between the two countries has increased
since last year's terrorist attack in Mumbai. The leaders will also try to resolve
the final glitches holding up implementation of a US-India civilian nuclear-power
deal, which was the hallmark of the Bush overtures to India. The Obama administration
wants to nail down guarantees that the nuclear fuel to be provided for power generation
does not end up being used for military purposes. India is also wary of the Obama
administration's stepped-up commitments to rival Pakistan, which it believes is
still supporting extremists groups as a way to keep India off balance. For its
part, the administration is torn over India's growing involvement in Afghanistan
in terms of civilian assistance and economic development. Although the involvement
offers a valuable economic boost, it also causes misgivings among Pakistani officials
and the military. Singh will be looking for evidence that Obama values the "strategic
partnership" that Bush cemented, said Neena Shenai, an adjunct scholar for South
Asian issues at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. |
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