Block 6
Earlier this month, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is to visit India for the US-India Economic and Financial Partnership meeting on November 11th. The goal for the U.S interest in this meeting is to make sure India knows that we are fighting for them with Russia. Recently, India has been appearing on team Russia, but they are currently in a state of fairly low commitment.
The significance of this extra step is to ensure U.S presence in the Indian economy, keeping the possibility that India will still have something to think about when it comes to how committed they get to team Russia. If this meeting shows less interest in the US-Indian economic partnership, then it would be safer to assume that India could very possibly commit further to their Russian ties. If India shows that they will be going for Russian ties, US and NATO will very possibly need to find a new friend in the far east. Economically this wouldn’t hurt the United States and allies, but the geographical politics would need to adapt to assume India is not going to end up on team USA.
Connecting this article to class, depending on the outcome of the meeting, the U.S plans for their geopolitical movement would need to change. In this case, India is the one making the choices but clearly haven’t committed to one side or the other too heavily yet. India’s decision is crucial to both sides, as if India chooses Russia, the U.S will need to adapt and make a lot of new allies in the area. The latter would mean that India would be allied with the U.S but would have to worry about now 2 superpowers on their borders, most likely leading to a new jump from NATO-US and allied military bases being built up in India.