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| US-India nuclear deal is sealed |
| 2007-07-22 |
| NEW DELHI, JULY 21:In a significant departure from all 123 agreements that the US has signed with other countries, India has extracted an explicit commitment in its bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement, which was finalised in Washington yesterday, that the US will “not hinder” the growth of India’s strategic weapons programme. India had pushed for including this commitment specifically to address concerns emerging from the Hyde Act that contains references in its non-binding portions allowing the US government to make efforts to “freeze” and “roll back” India’s weapons programme. These references had drawn criticism from the Left, BJP and former nuclear scientists even though Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had made it clear in his August 17 speech last year that India’s weapons programme will remain untouched. |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #4 Robert Blackwill deserves a lot of credit. It was Blackwill and Condi Rice who worked out this strategy with George Bush. "What India Means To Me" by Robert D. Blackwill, Former Deputy National Security Advisor and US Ambassador. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-07-22 12:17 |
| #3 And let's think, who's almost exclusively responsible for this change in relations with India...John Kenneth Galbraith? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-07-22 11:55 |
| #2 Yup, this is a big deal. Combine this with the advanced weapons sales, the trade deals, the continued cultural exchanges, and the simple back and forth of a couple million people of Hindi heritage now living in the U.S., and you draw India firmly into the Anglosphere alliance. Which is going to be a mighty handy thing in the years ahead. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-07-22 11:36 |
| #1 Good. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-22 06:47 |