AI: A friendship whose time has come

America-India partnership stands poised to reshape the world's dynamics if both sides play their cards right

The America-India (AI) relationship, which until 2000 lacked trust and was sometimes even hostile, has now come full circle. A process of closer relations started under President Bill Clinton and has progressed since then under Presidents George W Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. But the recent welcome accorded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by President Joe Biden, with a state dinner and a speech to the US Congress, has taken the AI relationship to a much higher level. While the China threat is the immediate boost for this relationship, it has many legs, from trade, technology, defence production, space,