India presents America with a choice between geopolitics and trade
So far, geopolitics is winning—just
MIKE POMPEO, America’s secretary of state, had two objectives during his trip to Delhi on June 25th. The first was to affirm India’s importance to America, which envisages a grand Indo-Pacific alliance to counter China. The second was to soothe an increasingly heated row about trade. Achieving the first was easy enough, but the second is proving harder.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “A Harley-hating ally”
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