America has had much more success in drawing India closer
turn under Xi Jinping and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have had many unforeseen consequences, from a crisis over a spy balloon to reinvigorating. One of the most significant side-effects of the new age of aggressive autocracies has been a push by the West to. In June Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, undertook a state visit to Washington, where he was feted by the White House, Congress and business leaders alike.
. But close ties with India are also important to its strategy for dealing with Mr Xi. The White House hopes that India can become an alternative base for supply chains as they diversify away from China. And it wants to strengthen security ties with India, whose relations with China have been fraught in recent years. During Mr Modi’s visit in June the two countries signed a number of defence deals, including to manufacture jet engines in India.
The Biden-Modi summit was a big success. Europe, in contrast, is finding that three obstacles stand in the way of better Indo-European relations. The first is that Europe does not take seriously enough what it sees as minor irritants but which infuriate India and Indians alike. The European Union’s visa policies for its 27-country free-travel region, known as Schengen, are a case in point.
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