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The Changing Indo-U.S. Strategic Partnership
Excellent. Indian-US relations from an Indian perspective. Most interesting. This is a must read for who wants to understand geo-politics and the future games...
via 3quarksDaily The Mumbai research Unit's Journal on Local Economy:
""" The Research Unit on Political Economy (Mumbai) looks at India's Place in the U.S. Strategic Order and related issues.
... US domination over India's foreign policy has never been more starkly apparent. Former external affairs minister, Yashwant Sinha, who himself presided over unprecedented growth of US influence and control, now terms India a "client state of America". That term has long been applied to Pakistan; yet even Pakistan abstained on September 24 from voting for the US's resolution in the IAEA.
... India is, of course, not a great or global power. That it is necessary to state this obvious fact is a testament to the power of public indoctrination.
... On the face of it, it would appear that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US faces no serious challenge to its global hegemony.
... Yet it is economic power that ultimately sustains military power, and US power is fragile at its economic base. The US's share of world income has fallen from half in 1950 to 21 per cent today; its share of manufacturing from 60 per cent in 1950 to 25 per cent in 1999; its share of the world's stock of foreign direct investment from 47 per cent in 1960 to 21 per cent in 2001.
- Need for Indian bases, training facilities
- Indian armed forces to do the "low-end" tasks
- India as the linchpin of a proposed 'Asian NATO'
- Missile 'defence': an offensive alliance with grave consequences
- Proliferation Security Initiative: violation of international law
- ... as the Indian rulers sign up to the US military alliance, they tie India to the world's most reactionary power and place it at the receiving end of the response of diverse worldwide anti-US forces. The negative consequences of that tying will be felt by the Indian people, in one form or the other: for example, through bloated military expenditures and increased danger of war and other retaliatory acts. So the Indian people will surely come to register their opposition to this subordination to US designs, and to the bogus 'great-power' status, which can neither feed, nor clothe, nor house them. """
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