It has been a singular success of Modi’s diplomacy that the US is willing to accept that it is simply not in India’s DNA to be part of any formal military alliance. The second one originated from Barack Obama’s mind when he envisaged in 2009 at a White House press conference with then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the US-Indian relationship ‘will be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century’.ĭuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit last week, US President Joe Biden repeated Obama’s description but ignored Vajpayee’s sentimental coinage. That was in the first flush of excitement that the US was on a path of engagement with India. The first one appeared in 1998 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee called India and the US ‘natural allies’. THERE have been two catchphrases in the post-Cold War Indo-US rhetoric.
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