India's Prime Minister's Visit to Washington, D.C.

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James Astor is the economist's Asia editor. He went to Delhi just a week before Modi set off to Washington, D.C. India wants corroboration of the deeper, closer India-U.S. relationship. But more specifically from a sort of policy and investment perspective, India should get an agreement with America to deepen defense industrial cooperation. And more broadly, India's rapidly emerging and increasingly important idea of its role in the world.

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