The highlights this week: U.S. officials are in New Delhi pushing for U.S.-India cooperation , violence flares again on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border despite talks, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s India visit reveals a little about how the bilateral relationship could evolve.
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The highlights this week: U.S. officials are in New Delhi pushing for U.S.-India cooperation, violence flares again on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border despite talks, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s India visit reveals a little about how the bilateral relationship could evolve.
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U.S. Officials Pop Up in New Delhi
The past few months have produced some encouraging signs for the U.S.-India relationship, which has been in deep crisis for much of the last year, since U.S. President Donald Trump took office. This week, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Allison Hooker was in New Delhi and Bengaluru for meetings about strategic, economic, and technological cooperation.
India and the United States held a round of counterterrorism dialogue on Dec. 3. A few weeks earlier, the two sides finalized a new 10-year framework agreement on defense cooperation. And harsh criticism from the White House toward India, targeting its economy and oil purchases from Russia, has stopped for now.
Yet my biggest takeaway from my own visit to New Delhi last week is that the relationship is still in a bad place. There is a prevailing view that the United States has lost a lot of the goodwill that it built up with
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