U.S. Treats India As Pawn In Its Strategy: Chinese Daily

For India, piggybacking on the closer relationship with the U.S. will benefit the people's livelihood through increasing economic cooperation and improving the country's infrastructure, it said.

The U.S. could also assist India to emerge as a major global power by backing India for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, the article added.

Furthermore, by fostering a revitalisation of the relations between the two democracies, India will gain diversified support in the fields of military and technology.

However, as a country that has long maintained non-alignment policy, India has no intention to shift its diplomatic strategy, not now and not in the future. Consequently, any cooperation could be treated as nothing but seeking mutual benefit, the daily said.

Therefore, despite the fact that both sides are sending positive signals and working hard to ensure Obama's upcoming visit will be fruitful, it will prove hard for the U.S. and India to become new best friends through a single visit. Several challenges are still confronting the two nations, the article said.

It also noted that Washington has a significantly different agenda to work out with India on climate change. The U.S. is trying to reach a global agreement on binding emissions targets in which developing countries would abide by specific requirements on emissions.

India, however, finds itself a "victim" of the effects of climate change that are caused largely by Western nations' industrialisation long ago.

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