{"id":3471,"date":"2019-06-24T16:46:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T11:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2019-06-24T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T11:16:04","slug":"better-balance-of-nationalist-cultural-and-economic-agendas-may-lead-to-better-management-of-bilateral-ties-for-india-and-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/better-balance-of-nationalist-cultural-and-economic-agendas-may-lead-to-better-management-of-bilateral-ties-for-india-and-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBetter balance of nationalist, cultural and economic agendas may lead to better management of bilateral ties for India and U.S\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Converging views of India and U.S: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modi and Mr. Trump are two leaders who are rewriting the notion of national interest itself \u2014 for instance, secularism was considered to be India\u2019s national interest until recently; immigration and trade were considered to be in America\u2019s national interest.<\/li>\n<li>A general presumption informing scholarship on international relations is that there is a non-negotiable and unchanging precept of national interest that determines the conduct of nations.<\/li>\n<li>Trump and Mr. Modi are guided by nationalisms that have cultural and economic components. In both, their views converge in some aspects and conflict in some others. For instance, on the cultural front, they could cooperate on global Islamism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source of conflict : <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The growing presence of Indians in America is a source of conflict.<\/li>\n<li>The sustained squeeze on Indian guest workers entering the U.S., particularly through the H-1B visa programme, is a case in point.<\/li>\n<li>Modi\u2019s politics involves boosting the global Hindu; but Indian Americans are cultural aliens to Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, besides being seen to be their economic adversaries.<\/li>\n<li>Trump has upended American strategy in two fundamental aspects. His approach to international ties gives precedence for commerce over the strategic, and workers over corporations.<\/li>\n<li>Professional strategists conventionally understood the U.S.\u2019s international ties from the perspective of its multinational corporations.<\/li>\n<li>These corporations wanted cheap manufacturing in China and Southeast Asia and U.S. policy enabled that pursuit.<\/li>\n<li>Corporations wanted cheap labour from India by outsourcing work and importing workers into the U.S. But Mr. Trump does not want American work coming to India, or Indian workers going to America; Mr. Modi wants both.<\/li>\n<li>Trump\u2019s disinterest in strategic matters and obsession with selling meet Mr. Modi\u2019s desire for arms acquisition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country specific perspectives: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What India wants from U.S?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investment, technology, arms, but does not want finished products (other than arms) or foreign ideas \u2014 Christianity, an open global market, the right to self-determination, human rights, Western strands of democracy coming through missionaries, international bodies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What America wants to sell to India?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This list does not entirely correspond to what Mr. Trump wants to sell \u2014 he wants to sell only finished products at lower tariffs, and keep technology and capital within the borders of America protected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S concerns: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When commerce becomes the only lens that the U.S. sees the world through, India and China look similar \u2014 trying to extract benefits from it.<\/li>\n<li>Trump sees India and China as two similar countries that are taking advantage of America with protectionism, weak intellectual property protection, and higher emissions under the climate treaty, the strategic reason for India-U.S. alignment, which is the menacing rise of China, gets weakened.<\/li>\n<li>One war that Mr. Trump wants to end (in Afghanistan) and another war that he appears to be itching to begin (with Iran) have major implications for India and its ties with the U.S. India wants America\u2019s continued engagement in Afghanistan and peace with Iran.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The point being that India-U.S. cooperation on terrorism has several components to be factored in and the Indian euphoria surrounding Mr. Trump\u2019s relentless bluster against Pakistan needs to tempered with some realism.<\/p>\n<p>The Hindutva nationalists in India have a deep suspicion of China and its intention and they consider the U.S. as an ally and a partner, but the tactical nature of that approach is not hidden or unstated. The cultural suspicion of the U.S. itself is an additional factor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Converging views of India and U.S: Modi and Mr. Trump are two leaders who are rewriting the notion of national<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}