Indo-US Relation: similarities, importance, clashes
Our similarities:
- Big Democracies
- Enemy of enemy are friends , guess who ;) you will find it soon :)
- Our countries are multi-ethnic even though filled with strong patriotism
- Federation of states. [ Refer constitutional borrowings from US ]
- Our history
- Colonies of England
- Leaders
- Famous assassinations [though not a matter of pride but a painful similarity] such as in USA, Abraham Lincoln, JF Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther
King were assassinated. In India, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandi and Rajiv
Gandh.
- Film Industry :
- Both have a big film industry with lots of film
stars.
- Watching movies in both the countries is a very popular pastime.
- Citizens in both these countries have a lot of admiration for their
movie stars and they imitate their film stars fashion.
Why Indo-US relation is important??
- "Save the democracy"
- Must to
counter hegemony of China [gotcha :) ]
"China is militarily and economically very assertive. It is facing so many bi-lateral disputes such as with India, Japan, Vietnam, etc. Its economic policy is very simple enter, flood and destroy.
- Enter: entry into other country's economy through bilateral relation, FDI etc.
- Flood: flood the economy with cheap goods. Even many times we chose cheap chinese products over indigenous product.
- Destroy: Need i explain? Destroy by weakening the backbone of any country's economy i.e. its domestic market which are its own manufacturing sector, agriculture sector,etc.
- Promote a
counter to China and balance the power in Asia
US has best chance to balance the power in Asia by encouraging India because US wont mind a more powerful India than an uncontrolled China
- After
losing an ally in Pakistan, US has best chances of new one in India
- Osama mission without Pakistan being taken into confidence
- Shamsi airfield mis-firing killing 24 Pakistani soldiers
- Many diplomatic reasons such US not backing Pakistan's stand on J&K,etc.
- Indo-US
military hardware has shot up to $10bn since 2004-05 from scratch
- Scope in
R&D and co-production in field of
- India’s
opening of FDI in retail sector: must have lighten the mood of US diplomats
- Indo US Japan tri-lateral relation ,naval exercise
- Counter terrorism
< Afghanistan moving out 2014>
Point of clashes:
- Clamping down
of work visas for techies
- increased fee for the same and tedious process
- cutting down on job out sourcing [ haven't you noticed Obama and ROmney pulling each other on outsourcing of jobs???]
- Civil Nuclear
Deal [ will cover this in detail later]
- India’s the
Nuclear Liability Act : -ve response of US
- India’s and
NSG
- Competition with Pakistan and Israel
- India’s
cyber security [almost all server in US and India expects greater role from US]
- Iran issue [ google and you will find lots of data on this.] In short here is summary
- Iran threatens Israel
- Israel is important ally of US in middle east
- US fears Iran making Nuclear weapon
- So imposed many international economic sanctions on Iran to create pressure to stop any such effort.
- India caught in between why??
- because we cant annoy US [refer start up of this post]
- Iran is major Oil exporter of India so our energy security relies very much on our relation with Iran]
- Early leaving of NATO forces from Afghanistan
- any destabilization there will cause economic loss to us as we have made huge investments there in terms of mineral exploitation, education tie-ups, hospitals, etc.
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