Episode #107: Tanvi Madan on the Future of the US-India Relationship
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🗓️ 23 January 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
With President Barack Obama on his way to India early next week, we asked Tanvi Madan, Fellow and Director of the India Project here at Brookings, onto the show to preview Obama’s trip and discuss what we can expect from the President’s second India summit in less than four months. It’s a trip that comes with much fanfare: it's the first time that an American president has been invited as chief guest to Republic Day, and it's also the first time a sitting American president has visited India twice. But, can we expect the results to match the hype? What can be done to advance the bilateral relationship on trade, defense cooperation, and regional integration? And, what role does India play in the broader US strategy in the Asia-Pacific region?
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:31.2 | But there's hesitation to kind of get entangled. |
| 0:34.7 | It's a little bit like the US in the early years of its history, kind of being concerned |
| 0:39.3 | about entangling alliances. |
| 0:41.4 | Having said that, we've seen India over the course of time for example become much closer |
| 0:46.8 | to the US. |
| 0:47.8 | But that also means it's not going to give up for example, it's really for example, |
| 0:51.6 | its relationship with Russia. |
| 0:53.9 | It would continue to try to engage China much as the US has. |
| 0:57.8 | It doesn't want to leave its security to another country, it doesn't want to depend on |
| 1:03.2 | another country. |
| 1:04.2 | So even though we don't have the kind of blocks of the Cold War, this element that India |
| 1:09.2 | should, Delhi should not have to look to Moscow. |
| 1:12.6 | And if all Washington, that if Washington is making a decision for example to go to war |
| 1:17.2 | in Iraq, India shouldn't be obliged to do it as well. |
| 1:20.8 | That's kind of the thinking behind very much trying to stay independent on that side. |
| 1:26.1 | And so far geopolitically they've had the luxury of doing so. |
| 1:30.3 | I'm Cody Poplin and this is the LawFair podcast January 24th, 2015. |
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