Washington: Walter Russell Mead, a leading expert on American foreign policy, has advocated for stronger India-US ties, terming deepening ties with India an “important way” to counter China in the short term and “build a strong defensive coalition for the future.”

In an article titled ‘India still wants to work with Trump’ in the Wall Street Journal, Mead, who is a Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute, believed that despite the recent tensions, “the Trump administration remains well-positioned to take US-India relations to a new level.”

“On tech policy, building close ties between the US, India, and friendly countries like Israel and Japan offers a path to countering the Chinese push for leadership in a strategic domain. On regional issues, American and Indian interests are broa

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