Why is US-India Relations Down

 Why is U.S.-India relations down?

This is not the first time that relations between the United States and India have experienced problems. It has happened three times before (1954, 1981 and 2001) and every time all the diplomatic and political relationships built is allowed to take a back seat in favor military expediency. This time it is the killing of an unimportant Al Qaida leader  Ayman al-Zawahiri. Pakistan had full knowledge of his whereabouts and would tell only if $6.5 billion IMF loan is approved and $450 million military upgrade package for old and outmoded F-16 built in 1984/85 is approved. The US has thrown ten years of diplomatic effort of India-US relations reset, under the bus. 

This $450 million of military assistance approved in August 2022 will make Pakistan more warlike and they will find an excuse to start another war.

US diplomats all through the period 1954 till 2022 were reassuring India of great mutually beneficial trade and economic relationship to match China, who is challenging US hegemony in Indo-Pacific region. For this, the United States needs India and sits with Japan, Australia and India in a QUAD group to gain a mutual understanding of defence. Yet the United States puts immediate military opportunism in the forefront and irritates the hell out of India. 

The US diplomats in Delhi and the State Department never think twice that India is a $3.5 Trillion economy (2022 IMF data) and rapidly growing to play a world class role as opposed to much smaller $357 billion Pakistani agricultural economy. The latter mainly devotes its budget to the military and deprives the economy of money. 

Then why does US resorts to such foolish activities. It is anybody’s guess, but official reasons given in 1954 and 1981 military aid, were to stop imaginary Soviet expansion to the Indian Ocean. The Reason given for 2001 military assistance is to get Pakistan on US side for war in Afghanistan. The diplomatic explanation for recent $450 million military upgrade is unsaid but everybody knows that it is a reward for the killing of Zawahiri. 

Therefore, anyone can guess that the actions of the United States are not of a friend, but of an estranged trading partner who has no diplomatic or political affinity with India. 

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