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Comment on India’s growing relationship with USA in the background of constrained relations between India and China.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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Tanvi Madan's Fateful Triangle (2020) shows that China has shaped India–US relations since the 1950s, drawing the two together whenever their threat perceptions converged. The year 2016 fits the pattern: India signed LEMOA and became a Major Defence Partner just as Beijing blocked its NSG bid at Seoul and the UN listing of Masood Azhar.…

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  • Constrained India–China relations as the driver
  • How the US relationship answers it
  • Why India stops short of choosing
  • Conclusion
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