President Joe Biden rolling out the diplomatic red carpet for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an overture to both leaders' domestic and foreign audiences.
As the two men contend with international challenges presented by China and Russia, they are also preparing for reelection campaigns next year.Despite the White House's insistence that Modi's official state visit is not about China, the United States and India want to broadcast the partnership's"robustness" abroad, according to former State Department policy planning staffer Paul Kapur, particularly since the prime minister has not condemned Russia's war in Ukraine.
Fellow Trump administration alumni Victoria Coates, a former deputy national security adviser-turned-Heritage Foundation senior research fellow, applauded Biden for being open to expediting arms sales to India, especially approving the co-production of General Electric F414 engines for Indian fighter jets and the purchase of General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drones.
"When you look at the string of senior officials that have been making the rounds in Delhi to button this up, it's quite significant," he said."India has many partners around the world, and a relatively small bureaucracy to service those engagements, so making progress requires this kind of intense tempo that we've seen over the last few months."
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