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Reexamining America’s Bet on India

Grand Tamasha

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The Bush Administration's View on the Need for a New Relationship With India

President Bush had a very simple idea. He thought that India was the paragon of what a liberal democracy ought to be. But for those who know American politics well, administrations are complex things. Both sides ended up in the same place: The desire to build Indian power as part of shaping a Pacific Asian geopolitical environment. We didn't need anything of India. We just wanted India to be strong and to be a good friend of the United States.

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