{"id":67379,"date":"2020-10-26T17:44:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=67379"},"modified":"2020-10-26T19:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:31:16","slug":"india-us-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-us-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"India-US Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><b>How India-U. S relation evolved over the years?<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><b><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-us-relations\/\">India-U. S relations<\/a> were at an all-time high during John F Kennedy and <\/b><\/strong><strong><b>George W Bush administration: <\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><b>John F Kennedy, in the 1960s<\/b><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kennedy was a firm supporter of India in positioning India as a democratic counterweight to a totalitarian China in Asia in the 1960s<\/li>\n<li>Even Kennedy had proposed an equivalent of a \u201cMarshall Plan\u201d for India funded by NATO allies and Japan to help India win the race against China.<\/li>\n<li>During his tenure, India received unprecedented economic assistance, and military aid during the 1962 Sino-India war<\/li>\n<li>Kennedy also played a role, in restraining President Ayub Khan of Pakistan from opening a second front against India during the Sino-Indian war<\/li>\n<li>The US-India relationship may have taken a different course during the difficult 1960s and 1970s had Kennedy not been assassinated in 1963, and Nehru not died in 1964.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><b>George W Bush, in the 2000s<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He ensured the success of the nuclear deal between India and the United States. The agreement mainstreamed India\u2019s nuclear programme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><b>Worst phase of India\u2019s relations with the US was during Richard Nixon and Clinton administration <\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><b>Richard Nixon in the 1970s:<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nixon administration was well known for the pro-Pakistan tilt in the 1970s.<\/li>\n<li>During this period India departed from its Non-Aligned posture, signed the 1971 Indo-Soviet treaty as a response to the continuing US tilt towards Pakistan and the beginnings of a Washington-Beijing alliance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><b>Clinton years in the 1990s:<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Clinton years witnessed dip in India and the US bilateral relations.<\/li>\n<li>India was pressurised to \u201cfreeze, rollback and eliminate\u201d its nuclear programme and to settle Kashmir dispute with Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S administration, even questioned Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s accession to India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>American Presidents can make a real difference to bilateral ties, including on trade, on immigration policies, and larger strategic issues.\u00a0The upcoming \u00a0\u00a0US Presidential election (Biden vs. Trump) has enormous significance to India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How India-U. S relation evolved over the years? India-U. S relations were at an all-time high during John F Kennedy and George W Bush administration: John F Kennedy, in the 1960s: Kennedy was a firm supporter of India in positioning India as a democratic counterweight to a totalitarian China in Asia in the 1960s Even&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-us-relations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India-US Relations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704755690},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}