Entente

Via Powerline, I read Lawrence Kudlow's new piece on the emerging US alliance with India:

In what could become the world's most significant 21st-century strategic alliance, a strengthened partnership is forming between the two largest English-speaking democracies: the United States and India. President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cemented bilateral ties in recent White House talks, paving the way for greater trade, investment and technological collaboration. In time and with the cooperation of other friendly powers in the region -- notably, Japan and Australia -- this new alliance could emerge as an essential counterweight to China. Essentially, it will be an Anglospheric alliance in Asia and the Pacific Rim.

It would fit both nations' self-interests nicely; the Indians don't get along with the Chinese, and we will probably be facing off against them on one front or another sooner or later. Hopefully peacefully.

U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, commenting on the multipoint joint statement issued after the White House meeting, declared the two countries had forged "a broad global partnership of the likes that we've not seen with India since India's founding in 1947."

Which has been one of the great benefits of the end of the Cold War; when socialism (no jokes about the Bush spending spree here please) took its big black eye, some nations - India included - were smart enough to see which way the wind was blowing.

Read the whole thing.

Posted by Mitch at August 10, 2005 06:27 AM | TrackBack