India between China and the U.S.

According to this article from France’s Le Monde,

India’s strategic priorities are fixed very clearly upon the two main actors in the Asian stage: the United States and China.

India’s objective is to

… work out its newly minted collusion with Washington without upsetting China

The U.S. has a role in South Asian geopolitics that is as important as it is unknown here:

The honeymoon between India and the United States is definitely the major event to have occurred in Asia in the last years. If we recall the Cold War era, when India/USSR were allied against the rivaling tandem of Pakistan/United States, this latest development is nothing short of a landslide. It was the Americans, rather than the Indians, who hastened to tie the knot.

They even have a name for it: “The American Temptation”, but, the article warns, the U.S. can take nothing for granted:

…it would be a hasty mistake to forget Indian diplomatic history, in which non-alignment and an obsession with “strategic autonomy” are articles of faith … There is a widespread feeling that the process of opening up to the West has gone too far.

To learn more about the role and challenges of the United States in South Asia, read the full article here. H/T Watching America