Indo-US Relation: similarities, importance, clashes

Our similarities:

1. Big Democracies
2. Enemy of enemy are friends , guess who ;) you will find it soon :)
3. Our countries are multi-ethnic even though filled with strong patriotism
4. Federation of states. [ Refer constitutional borrowings from US ]
5. Our history
1. Colonies of England
2. Leaders
3. Famous assassinations [though not a matter of pride but a painful similarity] such as in USA, Abraham Lincoln, JF Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King were assassinated. In India, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandi and Rajiv Gandh. 
6. Film Industry : 
•  Both have a big film industry with lots of film stars. 
• Watching movies in both the countries is a very popular pastime. 
•  Citizens in both these countries have a lot of admiration for their movie stars and they imitate their film stars fashion.

Why Indo-US relation is important??

• "Save the democracy"
•  Must to counter hegemony of China  [gotcha :) ]

             "China is militarily and economically very assertive. It is facing so many bi-lateral disputes such as with India, Japan, Vietnam, etc. Its economic policy is very simple enter, flood and destroy.

• Enter: entry into other country's economy through bilateral relation, FDI etc. 
• Flood: flood the economy with cheap goods. Even many times we chose cheap chinese products over indigenous product. 
• Destroy: Need i explain? Destroy by weakening the backbone of any country's economy i.e. its domestic market which are its own manufacturing sector, agriculture sector,etc.

•  Promote a counter to China and balance the power in Asia 

US has best chance to balance the power in Asia by encouraging India  because US wont mind a more powerful India than an uncontrolled China

•  After losing an ally in Pakistan, US has best chances of new one in India 
• Osama mission without Pakistan being taken into confidence
• Shamsi airfield mis-firing killing 24 Pakistani soldiers
• Many diplomatic reasons such US not backing Pakistan's stand on J&K,etc.

•  Indo-US military hardware has shot up to $10bn since 2004-05 from scratch 

•  Scope in R&D and co-production in field of 
• defense, 
• education [do you know the Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative ?? google it now], or follow this Link Obama-Singh-21st-Century-Knowledge-Initiative-Awards
• medicine.
•  India’s opening of FDI in retail sector: must have lighten the mood of US diplomats 
• Indo US Japan tri-lateral relation ,naval exercise  
•  Counter terrorism < Afghanistan moving out 2014>

Point of clashes:

• Clamping down of work visas for techies
• increased fee for the same and tedious process
• cutting down on job out sourcing [ haven't you noticed Obama and ROmney pulling each other on outsourcing of jobs???]

• Civil Nuclear Deal [ will cover this in detail later]
•  India’s the Nuclear Liability Act : -ve response of US 
•  India’s and NSG 
•  Competition with Pakistan and Israel   

• India’s cyber security  [almost all server in US and India expects greater role from US]

• Iran issue [ google and you will find lots of data on this.] In short here is summary
• Iran threatens Israel
• Israel is important ally of US in middle east
• US fears Iran making Nuclear weapon
•  So imposed many international economic sanctions on Iran to create pressure to stop any such effort.
• India caught in between why??
• because we cant annoy US [refer start up of this post]
• Iran is major Oil exporter of India so our energy security relies very much on our relation with Iran]

•    Early leaving of NATO forces from Afghanistan 
• any destabilization there will cause economic loss to us as we have made huge investments there in terms of mineral exploitation, education tie-ups, hospitals, etc.