India: the bet of rapprochement with the USA?

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (r.) Personally received President Donald Trump as he stepped off the plane at Ahmedabad Airport in Gujarat on February 24, 2020. (Illustrative Image) MANDEL NGAN / AFP

By: Marie-France Chatin Follow

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Tuesday, January 26 was Republic Day of India, a national holiday celebrating the anniversary of the Constitution which was marked in Delhi by a parade, the opportunity to exhibit the latest Indian military equipment, in a context of double tension .

Interior with peasant protest.

External with the face-to-face meeting between China and India on the Himalayan border, and even in vaccine diplomacy to fight against Covid-19.

Internationally, Joe Biden's arrival in Washington is an opportunity to reassess everyone's relations with the USA.

Narendra Modi has lost an ally in the person of Donald Trump, where Beijing welcomed his departure. 

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Guests: 

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Vaiju Naravane

, journalist.

Columnist for Thewire.in and The Hindustan Times.

Head of the Department of Media and Film Studies at Ashoka University in India.

Also collaborator of Le Monde Diplomatique

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Balveer Arora

, political scientist.

President of the Center for Multilevel Federalism at the New Delhi Institute of Social Sciences

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Jean-Luc Racine

, emeritus research director at CNRS and member of Asia Center. 

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