HOUSTON: India is facing a challenge to decide how much it should "align" with the U.S. in its strategic bilateral ties while "managing" China at the same time, a prominent U.S.-India business body has said.
Citing the recent docking of Chinese submarines at the Karachi port and China's plans to invest $46 billion in Pakistan,president U.S. India Business Council Mukesh Aghi said India's challenge is the dilemma of aligning with the U.S. and managing China at the same time.
"India would have to decide how much to align with the U.S. and how to manage China with which it also has a border dispute. China would challenge India in every respect and would keep India occupied by funding Pakistan," Aghi said.
Describing China as a "hard threat", Aghi said Russia was aligning itself with China and Japan was becoming much more defensive as a result of which America needed allies for its leadership role in the global order.
The India-China border dispute and China's retaliatory gesture of supporting Pakistan are also major causes for concern, he said.
"U.S., in turn, is following a strategy of managing China's rise without conflict, a peaceful withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and maritime security in the Pacific," Aghi said while addressing a luncheon meeting organised by Indo American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Houston.
The Indo-U.S. trade would grow to $500 billion, he said.
Aghi said the growing rapport between President Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the growing trust between the two democracies has led to several positive outcomes such as cooperation in cybersecurity, nuclear energy, healthcare and a trade target of $500 billion.
Describing India as a country that is an "opportunity as well as a challenge", Aghi said that there were a million new job entrants every year in India for whom jobs needed to be created.
An estimated 400 million Indians will move from rural to urban areas necessitating infrastructure, he said.
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