Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's US Visit: Eye on China

Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research, 2022

Today, nobody can deny the fact that the US-India relationship encompasses the most intense bilateral engagement that New Delhi enjoys with any nation. In 2014, when Narendra Modi was elected the prime minister of India, few anticipated that he would turn out to be such an ardent champion of stronger Indo-US ties. Particularly, in strategic cooperation, the Indian nuclear liability law, the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, which was enacted in the year 2010, had cast an enormous pall over the optimistic atmosphere that followed the historic nuclear deal. On the contrary, when Washington finally reached out to Modi through a congratulatory phone call from President Barack Obama, Modi displayed a graciousness that not only belied the anxieties of the past but effectively reset US-India relations for a new era going forward. Moreover, the density of these different ties and interactions between the two makes clear is that the US seeks the closest possible relationship with India, while remaining respectful of India's constraints, even as New Delhi seeks a deeper affiliation with Washington that bolsters its national power. However, some of the political analysts point out that all the breadth of its successes, however, the partnership still lacks the requisite depth; mitigating this deficit remains the key task for both countries in the years ahead but the US-India strategic partnership has strengthened significantly during the past two decades, based on a convergence of strategic interests. The present research paper highlights Indo-US strategic cooperation including some other ties in Modi era.

isara solutions, 2021

(Raj) It is important to bear in mind that since India-China, and US-China relations are becoming extremely tense over bilateral, regional and international issues, India and the United States have enormous opportunities to come much closer to each other to deal with China's increasingly threatening posture, be it in the South China Sea or in the Ladakh region where India and China are locked in a military stand off for last more than six months. This warranted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump to cooperate with each other to halt China's expansionist designs. For this, both Washington and New Delhi have undertaken a series of measures on several fronts such as putting restrictions on imports from China, the closure of China's internet sources and telecommunication links.

Modi government is just over six month old but there are clear trends emerging in India's foreign policy. Three priorities of the new government are: a hardliner policy on external security, especially, in dealings with Pakistan; active economic engagements with potential investors, such as, Japan, China and the European Union, and; a closer strategic cooperation with the USA and Japan to balance China in this region. It also maintains a closer relation with Russia due to historic and geopolitical reasons. While actively engaging with the South East Asian states under its 'Act East' policy, it has yet to evolve a clear framework for engagement with the West Asia. The language and symbols of engagements, however, are always rooted in the frame of cultural nationalism which panders to the religious hardliners domestically. This paper is an attempt to unravel and describe these emerging trends by analyzing Modi's bilateral and multilateral engagements in the last six months.

President Xi's highly anticipated India visit was watered down due to the persistent security dilemma in India China relations, even then newer areas of cooperation emerged.

International Affairs

Two years after Narendra Modi became prime minister of India, how should we understand his foreign policy? Commentators are divided on whether or not Modi has brought anything new to it. The highly respected former diplomat and Foreign Secretary, Shyam Saran, argues that Modi's external policies have built on the past; that the difference between Modi and his predecessors is a matter of energy and style. 1 By contrast, a leading Indian commentator, C. Raja Mohan, regards Modi's rule as presaging the start of a 'Third Republic' and a new foreign policy. 2 Central to any Indian prime minister's foreign policy is dealing with the country's chief rivals, Pakistan and China. How has he managed relations with India's old foes? And what do his Pakistan and China policies suggest about his broader foreign policy stance? In 2014, a country with the world's third biggest economy (in purchasing power parity terms) and one of the six largest conventional militaries voted for a right-wing, religious-minded leader who promised change. 3 Change in India's key relationships could have consequences far beyond southern Asia. This article argues that under Modi, India's policies towards Pakistan and China have moved from a stance of 'normal', slow-to-anger bilateral diplomacy and non-alignment to a harder, more outspoken bilateral diplomacy and a more explicit coalition diplomacy (what might be called 'Acting West', 'Acting East' and 'Acting South'). This harder bilateral diplomacy features a cooperation-defection dynamic previously largely absent from Indian foreign policy, which has hitherto tended towards a state of permanent, protracted negotiations. In addition, while Modi 'talks the talk' of non-alignment, he is moving India towards varying degrees of partnership with the United States and a number of regional states against Pakistan and China. 4

The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies, 2022

Under the Narendra Modi’s administration, India has been implementing a pragmatic foreign policy following realistic principles toward China. By using methods of policy analysis, in combination with content analysis and discourse research, the paper demonstrates that India’s policy toward China under the Prime Minister (PM) Modi’s leadership is a set of strategic responses of a rising power to an assertive neighbor who is rising at global level. This set of responses includes a policy of cooperation when it sees China as a partner, a policy of containment when it sees China as a rival, a policy of conflict management when it sees China as a neighbor who has direct territorial disputes; and a policy of balance of power when it sees China as an opponent. The authors of the paper are of the view that one of the key elements in India’s policies toward China is that it is a combination of both cooperation and competition aspects. In addition, it is to be seen that India has simultaneousl...

2014

India’s new prime minister Narendra Modi invited all the heads of the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to his swearing-in ceremony and chose Bhutan for his first official foreign visit. These moves, along with Modi’s recent visit to Nepal, are part of an effort to bolster India’s ties with its neighbors. To better understand Modi’s emphasis on regional engagement, NBR interviewed Nilanthi Samaranayake, a strategic studies analyst at CNA Corporation. Ms. Samaranayake provides insights on the significance of Modi’s outreach to other South Asian leaders, discusses key issues for the new government in this engagement, and explains how India’s regional efforts are viewed by other countries in Asia, particularly China.

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 2008

On 11-13 Oct 19, the Indian Prime Minister hosted the Chinese President at the coastal tourist resort of Mahabalipuram near Chennai for the second informal Summit meeting. This issue-brief analyses the salient takeaways of the context of the first one at Wuhan, and the current developments in India-China relations.