May 25, 2010 ☼ balance of power ☼ China ☼ Foreign Affairs ☼ G-20 ☼ geopolitics ☼ India ☼ media ☼ op-ed ☼ Pax Indica ☼ Realism ☼ realpolitik ☼ United States
This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.
In today’s Pax Indica column, I argue “that despite an alignment of interests, (India) must not always side with the United States. It must swing.”
To paraphrase Henry Kissinger, India’s options toward the United States and China must always be greater than their options toward each other. It serves “our purposes best if we maintained closer relations with each side than they did with each other.” Isn’t this—by design or by default—what we’re already doing? Not really. That’s because until New Delhi demonstrates that it can deliver pain for one and pleasure for the other, it won’t be seen as swinging. It will be mistaken for sleep-walking. [Yahoo! India]
Read the whole thing. Coincidentally, this piece has the answer to the question that Dan Drezner poses on his blog today, though the question itself is posed from a quintessentially American frame of reference.
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