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India and China – ‘Double-Trouble’ for the U.S.

USA is far more useful than china. we can use their dominance in trade and diplomacy to benefit us greatly.

so i would side with the US

really admire your brilliant intelligence. kudos.

you are better than your fellow kids that solve that old puzzles, see yestoday's threads, there are 2 of them.
 
India must behave like an US ally to gain full trust of the US.

Let US show her trust to India first

For example, India must provide monitoring stations along the Chinese border. Allow US fleets in its ports and allow US AF bases in its northwest sector to assist in

Unnecessary!


war against terror.

India is already doing that.

India must behave like an US ally to gain full trust of the US.

Let US show her trust to India first

For example, India must provide monitoring stations along the Chinese border. Allow US fleets in its ports and allow US AF bases in its northwest sector to assist in

Unnecessary!


war against terror.

India is already doing that.
 
india is country is 1.2 bill, our economy is domestic. we pose no economic threat to anyone. military threat is also for neighbours. india being the top 2 economy in inevitable no matter how u look it or graph it. but india wont be a threat like usa to weak countries.

india policy makers have recommended our leaders to keep distance from usa and focus on africa and middle east, south east asia and japan and china. its much better for india to trade with developing countries than developed world. india's trade with africa will cross 100 bill by 2014 up from 3 bill in 2004. indian trade with middle east is worlds fastest growing. i am quite happy with indian policy makers.
 
Faced with an increasingly assertive China, the United States is embracing India.

Like America, India is a democracy – an open, pluralistic society. Military planners in Washington don’t spend time fretting about war with India, the way they do about conflict with China. India’s economy, with its vibrant services sector, doesn’t pose nearly the same the challenge to the U.S. as China’s manufacturing juggernaut.

In short, to U.S. policy-makers worried about the long-term threat from China, India looks like a useful counterbalance.

Not so fast, says a newly published book by George Gilboy, the chief representative of an international energy firm in China and Eric Heginbotham, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. “Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior” argues that the benign view of India in Washington policy-making circles may be an illusion, rooted more in U.S. insecurity about China than a hard-nosed assessment of India. When you stop looking at India through the prism of China, the authors argue, the picture looks very different. On many issues of key concern to Washington, from trade and investment to Iran and arms proliferation, India’s view of the view of the world is strikingly similar to China’s.

One of the book’s big takeaways: Far from being a “balancer” to China, the rise of India could mean “double trouble” for Washington. The Wall Street Journal’s China editor Andrew Browne recently sat down with the authors. Edited excerpts below:

What motivated you to write this book?

Gilboy: The original objective is really to understand what rising Chinese and Indian power means for U.S. interests. There’s an impression out there that China is emerging as an inevitable challenger and potential enemy, and India is emerging as a natural ally. And that ought to be investigated, in part by just asking the same question of each power.

Heginbotham: When you just ask ‘How is China a challenger?’ and ‘How might India help?’ you’re not likely to get the reverse of the coin on either one of those countries. The real purpose here was to ask the same questions in a structured way and look at the empirical data on actual behavior.

So what’s the conclusion?

Heginbotham: The punchline here is that what we may be facing with the rise of these two powers is double-trouble. Both are going to present challenges to the United States. At the same time, we’ll be able to partner with both of them on various issues. It’s a much more mixed bag – a much more nuanced picture than we think is generally recognized.

Gilboy: Both China and India are equally likely to pursue their territorial and maritime claims over disputed areas, they’re equally likely to use force in international disputes, and they spend roughly the same share of GDP on military power. Both of them have an outstanding territorial and political dispute that’s wrapped up not only in territorial questions but also questions of state legitimacy in both countries, and also of national identity: Taiwan for China; Kashmir for India. So they’re equally difficult to resolve. Partly as a result, both pursue a common agenda at the U.N. and other security bodies.a strict interpretation of state sovereignty and a protection of the principle of non-interference in the affairs of other states. This helps us understand why India is such a reluctant ally on questions all the way from Libya to Syria to Iran. India is just as committed to this idea of not having Western military interventions in these states.

Heginbotham: The strict interpretation of sovereignty isn’t an academic issue – it has real consequences. We looked at UN voting records and there’s a very high level of convergence between Indian and China on Iran, Sudan, Burma, WMD issues. On these issues of importance to the U.S., the Chinese and Indian positions are very close.


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