“Head-on | West uses India tactically, India must use West strategically”, Firstpost, May 19, 2023:
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a busy global schedule over the next few days. First, the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on 20 May where he will meet US President Joe Biden on the sidelines. Then, in between a stopover in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the island strategically located north of Australia in China’s Indo-Pacific backyard, a series of engagements in Sydney, including a bilateral with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Next month Biden will host Modi for a four-day state visit in Washington, beginning 22 June, with a black-tie banquet dinner at the White House thrown in. It’s only the third state visit Biden has hosted for a foreign leader since he took office in January 2021.
What lies behind the US charm offensive? Bharat has to be careful not to be swept off its feet. Washington needs India for three reasons: China, China and China….”
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