Do not surrender to China, do not depend on the U.S.
A volatile political climate in Washington has triggered a wave of strategic anxiety in New Delhi. The lobby contends that because India remains deeply reliant on Chinese technology, supply chains, industrial inputs, and capital, a dogmatic anti-China stance ultimately stymies domestic economic growth while barely denting Beijing’s economy. In any case, the proposed alternative — a hasty, unreciprocated economic embrace of China — is a dangerous prescription.
- ▪A volatile political climate in Washington has triggered a wave of strategic anxiety in New Delhi.
- ▪The lobby contends that because India remains deeply reliant on Chinese technology, supply chains, industrial inputs, and capital, a dogmatic anti-China stance ultimately stymies domestic economic growth while barely denting Beijing’s econo
- ▪In any case, the proposed alternative — a hasty, unreciprocated economic embrace of China — is a dangerous prescription.
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A volatile political climate in Washington has triggered a wave of strategic anxiety in New Delhi. Buffeted by the transactional, often erratic policy shifts of the Donald Trump administration — which hit India last year with punitive tariffs on steel and aluminium, stripped its preferential trade status, and aggressively renewed ties with Islamabad while imposing irritants such as tightening H-1B visa rules — a growing chorus of domestic voices is calling for a fundamental reset of India’s China policy.Economic actors, their flawed lineThe argument, championed largely by an influential business lobby, suggests that India’s confrontational approach toward Beijing was overly synchronised with Washington’s strategic agenda of “containment” rather than India’s national interests.
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