India-US relations: As India hobnobs with the West to tame China, the West hopes to wean India off Russia. Will it work?

India-US relations: As India hobnobs with the West to tame China, the West hopes to wean India off Russia. Will it work?

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval prior to a meeting at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi

Synopsis

In a big tactical push, India and the US have elevated their strategic partnership in critical technology. With a hawk eye on China, NSAs of the two countries termed their cooperation in critical and emerging technologies as significant. The West wants to decouple from China, and also doesn’t like India-Russia bonhomie. Can it kill two birds with one stone?

Three big developments in the past week seem to be setting the stage for India’s critical-technology cooperation in the strategic sector with three of its western allies. First, it was the maiden meeting of national security advisers (NSA) of India and the United States on January 31 concerning the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Information Technology (iCET). Second, was the NSA-level strategic dialogue between India and the United Kingdom

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