Is India Taking Advantage of America?
As Modi visits Biden at the White House, a look inside the relationship between the world’s two biggest democracies.
As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to the White House this week for a state dinner, politicians and TV anchors will recall familiar platitudes about how India and the United States are the world’s two biggest democracies and uniquely share values and interests in an otherwise turbulent and rocky world order.
Ravi Agrawal is the editor in chief of Foreign Policy. Twitter: @RaviReports
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