DTN News: India Welcoming But Wary Of Obama....NSI News Source Info # 1178(NSI News Source Info) KOTTAKKAL, Kerala, India - November 1, 2010: As India prepares to welcome U.S. President Barack Obama later this week, there is a lurking suspicion that the enormous opportunities presented by growing commercial and political ties with the United States may also be a trap.
Very many Indians brought up on the policies of Moscow-leaning non-alignment of the past century are apprehensive that increasing trade, investment and military ties with the U.S. carry the price of becoming an instrument of Washington’s foreign policy.
That is probably a demonstration of excessive sensitivity, but viewed from India there are good reasons not to be easily seduced by Washington’s clear desire for improving relations first mooted by former president George W. Bush in 2006.
Those overtures led to the 2008 agreement between Washington and New Delhi to regularize India’s nuclear program. India had been held at arm’s length by many countries, including Canada, because of its 1972 development of nuclear weapons, its bomb test in 1999 and its refusal to join the international nuclear regulation regime.
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