U.S., India share long-term interests
June 12, 2012 / Dhruva Jaishankar, Daniel M. Kliman
Politico
It’s become somewhat fashionable over the past year to criticize the U.S.-India relationship. Washington has expressed dismay at India’s backpedaling on market reforms that would have benefited U.S. corporations. It accuses New Delhi of not upholding India’s end of a landmark civilian nuclear agreement. Some have also lambasted India for its U.N. Security Council abstention on military intervention in Libya and for not complying with U.S. sanctions on Iran.
Indian leaders, for their part, have expressed reservations about the United States. They say U.S. restrictions on visas, overregulation and anti-outsourcing rhetoric have deterred Indian investment — sometimes to the detriment of U.S. jobs. Washington is regarded as intransigent on global issues like world trade and climate change. And Indians are also still wary of U.S. dependence on China and Pakistan, nuclear-armed states that claim large tracts of Indian-controlled territory.



