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Welcome to the show. So Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Washington this week.

Modi has been here before, but it's his first state visit. The India-U.S. relationship is obviously important. Successive U.S. presidents have described how they think the partnership could be a defining one for the 21st century.

But sometimes the rhetoric can also go a bit far. You'll hear politicians and TV anchors

trotting out familiar platitudes this week about how India and the United States

are the world's two biggest democracies and uniquely share values and interests in an otherwise

turbulent and rocky world order. Some of that rhetoric feels a little bit dated today. It feels

like it's run its way into a heavy dose of realism. After all, democracy has

faced challenges in both the United States and India. These two countries are by no means immune

to the problems other countries face. Nor is their shared value system that strong. New Delhi has

pointedly diverged from Washington's foreign policy

objectives by not only refusing to sanction Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, but also increasing

its imports of Russian crude in the last year by orders of magnitude. As the United States has sought

to build a coalition to punish Russia, isolate China, and more broadly

aligned democracies against autocracies, India hasn't quite followed the script. Instead, it's expressed

a more individualistic approach, picking and choosing the best deals and partnerships for itself.

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