![]() ![]() At its least plausible, it imagines that as the world’s largest democracy, India will somehow reach common cause with the West and balance together in competition with China. This wish, or more likely chimera, takes several forms. ![]() President Joe Biden on Wednesday and Thursday, he will be trailing along with him a nimbus of Western expectations.īy becoming the world’s most populous nation in April with 1.425 billion people, surpassing China for the title it had held since the mid-18th century, India has unleashed what are probably exaggerated hopes that the emergence of a powerful new giant on the world stage can alter a potentially terrifying unfolding dynamic of zero-sum contest between Washington and Beijing. When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Washington to meet with U.S.
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