Politics - Secretary of State Antony Blinken on June 12 in the preamble to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming state visit said central to the emerging cooperation in critical technologies between the two countries such as semiconductors and defense was “reducing strategic dependencies”.
Blinken has inserted a new phrase into the narrative around the India-US relationship whose limits have been defined by New Delhi’s pursuit of strategic autonomy, which is a foreign policy construct deployed by India to choose friends without committing itself to anything serious.
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