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U.S. Trade Can Help India Reform
March 26, 2013 / Daniel Twining
The Wall Street Journal
This article originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Click here to read the full article.
Within a generation, India will likely become one of the United States' most vital diplomatic partners. As the U.S. pivots toward Asia, India will prove more capable than any existing U.S. ally in advancing interests from defeating terrorism to managing China's rise. Already, Washington and New Delhi have developed a far-reaching strategic partnership centered on defense cooperation.
In contrast, Indo-U.S. economic relations remain underdeveloped, stymied by a lack of vision and Indian skittishness toward liberalization. A new trade and energy partnership could make up for lost time. To cement its burgeoning alliance with New Delhi, and to help India reform and grow, the U.S. should offer the triple incentive of a free-trade agreement, assured energy supplies and membership in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC).
Absent such a strategic framework, Indo-U.S. economic ties have degenerated into parochial trade disputes over items such as pistachio nuts and chickens. Trade negotiators, and even top political leaders, regularly skirmish in bilateral channels and at the World Trade Organization. This is no way to build a partnership between the world's largest democracies.
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Daniel Twining is Senior Fellow for Asia at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where he leads a 15-member team working on the rise of Asia and its implications for the West.
