A French Dassault Rafale multirole combat aircraft performs during the Aero India 2011's inauguration day in the Indian city of Bangalore on Feb. 9, 2011. India's planned purchase of 126 fighters from France's Dassault marks the latest stage in a huge military procurement cycle that has made the world's largest democracy the world's biggest arms importer. Dibyangshu / SarkarFacing the Challenge of China, Should India Embrace the U.S.? -- Ishaan Tharoor, Time
India’s Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna was in Beijing this week, inaugurating his nation’s new $10 million embassy and meeting with his Chinese counterpart as well as a range of high-ranking Communist Party officials. The biggest headline to emerge from the visit was invariably about the two countries’ commitment to reach $100 billion in bilateral trade by 2015. Sino-Indian summitry is notorious for its tiresome platitudespeak, full of stiff statements promising respect for the other’s sovereignty and even stiffer appeals to friendship and bonhomie between the two Asian giants. This is understandable. Presiding over vast, intensely nationalist publics, both governments need to tread lightly in order to stave off conflict. But there are reasons to expect a hardening of the geopolitical divide, despite Beijing’s and New Delhi’s talking points.
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