Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is coming to Washington, D.C. on June 14-15 of this week, with big receptions planned for him at the White House and the Congress, where he will address a Joint Session of Congress for the second time as Prime Minister. Talk of how the U.S. understands India’s right to its own sovereign foreign policy aside, Washington is working hard to come up with a way of roping non-aligned India into Global NATO’s war on Russia and, soon, China.
For the occasion, London’s old imperial outlet, The Economist magazine, published a package of five articles of instructions on how to best to accomplish that, while working on blowing up its former colony’s development and independence, with particular vitriol reserved for Prime Minister Modi. Their starting point is that “America and its allies”—read London—"have come to see [India] as an indispensable counterweight to an assertive China,” as The Economist writes.
The Economist is hopeful that an agreement for U.S.-India cooperation on “high-tech weapons” can come out of this trip, “as India is being weaned off its dependence on Russian weaponry,” but it interviewed Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar for its package, and they were not amused by what he had to say. The Economist reported next to nothing about what he told them, but evidently it was sufficient to demonstrate that India’s “non-alignment is non-negotiable,” that it “does not really believe in alliances,” and that India is more interested in increasing economic cooperation with the U.S. than in joining its strategic orientation.
