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LankaWeb – US-India relations come under strain


Posted on May 3rd, 2021
By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today
India and the US have designated themselves as ‘strategic partners’ with political, economic and military dimensions to the relationship. But the partnership has kept coming under strain.
The reasons are two-fold: Firstly, its contours are not defined. Secondly, Washington’s ‘America First’ policy and its tendency to pursue a foreign policy almost exclusively in its own immediate interest, clashes with India’s penchant for maintaining ‘strategic autonomy’ despite its increasing economic and military dependence on the US.
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