Washington: The US-India strategic partnership — long viewed in Washington as a cornerstone for stability in the Indo-Pacific — has come under unusually sharp scrutiny as leading analysts warned lawmakers that the relationship faces its most serious political and economic headwinds in years.

In prepared remarks submitted to a Congressional committee ahead of a hearing on India on Wednesday, three India experts told the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on South and Central Asia that while defence, technology, and maritime cooperation continue to deepen, the partnership has been destabilised by tariffs, trade disputes, and the Trump administration’s renewed high-level outreach to Pakistan’s military leadership.

Sameer Lalwani from the German Marshall Fund said the United Sta

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