India Is a Situational Partner, Not an Ally

By: Michael Mazza and Shay Khatiri | The Dispatch |

In August, President Donald Trump turned his ire toward India, purportedly for continuing to purchase oil from Russia and thus financing Vladimir Putin’s war machine. But his harshly critical rhetoric and the tariffs he applied were in keeping with previous and longstanding complaints about a raft of Indian trade practices he deems unfair. Trump’s critics have responded by pointing to the valuable role India plays in U.S. efforts to contain China. These critics have a point—but they overstate their case. India is an important situational partner to the United States, but it is in no way a permanent ally of the free world.

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