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India tried to build an Israel-style lobby in Washington, DC. But money, race and ideology have kept Indian-Americans from becoming a political force.
A few months ago, John Mearsheimer, the American political scientist and doyen of the realist school, shared an intriguing anecdote with me. After his controversial book, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, appeared in 2007, an Indian diplomat posted in the United States invited him to lunch in Chicago. The purpose was not to debate Mearsheimer’s argument about the Israel lobby’s influence, but to learn how India could adopt the Israeli model for lobbying in America. This aligns with what a senior US official, involved at the White House in the early high point of the India-US engagement, told …
Influence cannot be manufactured through diaspora networks, carefully branded events or political donations. It requires honesty and credibility.
Chinese diplomats to India are saying all the right things for Indian ears, but Beijing’s policy actions are moving in the opposite direction.
The country's fighter jet roadmap rests on imported propulsion, leaving its military plans hostage to cost shocks, delays and geopolitics.
