Siddharth Varadarajan spoke to India’s former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the US, the deals signed, the politics and economics involved, and China's role in bringing the two nations together.
This claim runs contrary to the prevalent narrative in the Biden administration, whose officials have been seen to be going out of their way to court the Modi government without raising any public objection about the erosion of democracy and ill-treatment of minorities in India.
The US has recognised Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India and strongly opposes any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims by renaming localities, the White House has said.