2 min readWashingtonJul 17, 2009 04:38 PM IST
First published on: Jul 17, 2009 at 04:38 PM IST
With Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her maiden visit to India,an American foreign policy expert feels the top US diplomat should demonstrate that Obama Administration has a strategic vision for Indo-US relations.
Senior Research Fellow on South Asia in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation,Lisa Curtis said the new Administration’s strategic vision must acknowledge New Delhi’s growing global economic,political,and geo-strategic clout.
Clinton,however,should be careful not to link terrorism in India to the political situation in Jammu and Kashmir,she argued.
Another expert,Evan Feigenbaum,senior fellow for East,Central and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations,said that Clinton would be continuing with the agenda of the previous Bush Administration.
This is because the Indo-US relationship has reached the phase of bipartisan support and the American leadership feels it is important for national security and economic prosperity to deepen the strategic tie up with India,he argued.
“I think she’s in a position to,as I say in this expert brief,reap the harvest of what has been an utterly transformational decade in US-India relations,” Feigenbaum said.
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