SS: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in India on Saturday on a mission to shore up a partnership battered by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and Washington’s renewed engagement with New Delhi’s rivals Pakistan and China.
India has been hard hit by the ripple effects of the war, with the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz leading to a shortage of cooking fuel supplies. The energy crisis has also set back U.S. efforts to wean India off Russian oil.
Modi’s office said that the leader reiterated India’s support for peace efforts and stressed the need to resolve conflicts through dialogue and diplomacy. India has remained largely pragmatic on the conflict, urging peace while condemning Iran’s attacks on its neighbors, but not joining those denouncing the U.S. and Israeli strikes that started the war.
U.S. presidents, including Trump in his first term, have long tried to pull historically non-aligned India closer as a counterweight to Russian and rising Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific. Those efforts appeared to take a blow last year when Trump slapped some of the highest U.S. tariffs on India.
Rubio also extended an invitation for Modi to visit the White House at the meeting, the State Department said.
“We want to sell them as much energy as they’ll buy,” Rubio said. “There’s a lot to work on with India. They’re a great ally, a great partner. We do a lot of good work with them.”
The U.S. has meanwhile grown closer to India’s rival and neighbour Pakistan, with Islamabad emerging as a key interlocutor in efforts to end the war, a new irritant to the U.S.-India relationship.
Trump’s visit this month to Beijing also amplified Indian concerns about U.S. ties, said Basant Sanghera, a former State Department South Asia policy expert now with The Asia Group consultancy.
“I do not expect Secretary Rubio will have much impact in changing the downward trajectory,” said Richard Rossow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.
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I think its going to take another generation for things to recuperate with the US. India’s foreign policy is just kinda fucked because of the Cold War and geography. It is in the similar position that Vietnam or Serbia are in. The US relationship with Vietnam got better because of China’s irrenditism more than anything. For what it is worth, France and the rest of the EU seem genuine in bolstering ties with India, that wouldn’t be a bad bridge to build in a multi-polar order.
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Journalists once again pretending that this administration is at all interested in any realpolitik shit. They don’t care about India, just like they don’t care about any of the other nations they’ve destroyed credibility with. But oh no we need to write a price that pretends that’s not true.
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SS: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in India on Saturday on a mission to shore up a partnership battered by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and Washington’s renewed engagement with New Delhi’s rivals Pakistan and China.
India has been hard hit by the ripple effects of the war, with the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz leading to a shortage of cooking fuel supplies. The energy crisis has also set back U.S. efforts to wean India off Russian oil.
Modi’s office said that the leader reiterated India’s support for peace efforts and stressed the need to resolve conflicts through dialogue and diplomacy. India has remained largely pragmatic on the conflict, urging peace while condemning Iran’s attacks on its neighbors, but not joining those denouncing the U.S. and Israeli strikes that started the war.
U.S. presidents, including Trump in his first term, have long tried to pull historically non-aligned India closer as a counterweight to Russian and rising Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific. Those efforts appeared to take a blow last year when Trump slapped some of the highest U.S. tariffs on India.
Rubio also extended an invitation for Modi to visit the White House at the meeting, the State Department said.
“We want to sell them as much energy as they’ll buy,” Rubio said. “There’s a lot to work on with India. They’re a great ally, a great partner. We do a lot of good work with them.”
The U.S. has meanwhile grown closer to India’s rival and neighbour Pakistan, with Islamabad emerging as a key interlocutor in efforts to end the war, a new irritant to the U.S.-India relationship.
Trump’s visit this month to Beijing also amplified Indian concerns about U.S. ties, said Basant Sanghera, a former State Department South Asia policy expert now with The Asia Group consultancy.
“I do not expect Secretary Rubio will have much impact in changing the downward trajectory,” said Richard Rossow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.
I think its going to take another generation for things to recuperate with the US. India’s foreign policy is just kinda fucked because of the Cold War and geography. It is in the similar position that Vietnam or Serbia are in. The US relationship with Vietnam got better because of China’s irrenditism more than anything. For what it is worth, France and the rest of the EU seem genuine in bolstering ties with India, that wouldn’t be a bad bridge to build in a multi-polar order.
Journalists once again pretending that this administration is at all interested in any realpolitik shit. They don’t care about India, just like they don’t care about any of the other nations they’ve destroyed credibility with. But oh no we need to write a price that pretends that’s not true.