India-US relations: cooling and warming up (merged thread)

[Ray]

Ray:

Long term this will have no effect on US-Indian relations. Our interests are just too closely aligned. Red China, freedom of navigation and the possibility of Pak army nukes going walkabout easily trump this.

That said things will be roiled for awhile. It is my opinion that over here, to the extent this is viewed at all it is viewed as some rich b---h throwing her weight around and picking on a poor person. There will be very little sympathy for that.

In the long term it will affect the US India relationship.

India is livid.

Red China is an issue with India, but then one never knows if the US action that it has taken violating international conventions will create some sort of an understanding with China and Russia.

It is not a rich b throwing her weight against a poor person. The poor person is another street smart scum who is aware how to make the US do gooders jump to her side, so as to manipulate a US citizenship - the Holy Grail that all the lower income group of India years to achieve.

Read this please:

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes...-nri-prejudice

TO be frank, the bon homie and the growing fondness of the US in India seems to have evaporated with this case.

We, in India, are aware of how people try all sorts of tricks, including getting married to US/ UK citisnes to divorce later, just to get into US/ UK and get a citizenship.

All aid and done, opportunities to eke an existence are greater and easier in western countries than in India.

One should see the huge number of 'care givers' who go to Canada and elsewhere. They hang around and they get the citizenship.

Western countries, for reasons best known to them, go out of their way in the game of 'political correctness', turning a blind eye to the reality of the ground situation.

Also read this:

http://articles.economictimes.indiat...-narendra-modi

It indicates that the US has scant regards for foreign court adjudicating on their own citizens.

All I can say is that the US has not read the tea leaves right and it is indeed sad situation for those who rooted for the US in India.

The fear is the reversal to the old days that may happen if this spat is not sorted out quickly.