The Ladakh Crisis and the Opportunity for US-India Relations—with a Catch

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Title

The Ladakh Crisis and the Opportunity for US-India Relations—with a Catch

Subject

Ladakh
India
China
South Asia

Description

The recent India-China border crisis in Ladakh underscores the threat posed by Beijing to the United States (US) and Indian interests in the Indo-Pacific region. Accordingly, the spat presents opportunities to strengthen the US-India partnership. However, the crisis also risks exposing the partnership's limits. This paper argues that to fully capitalise on the opportunities that the crisis generates for US-India relations, Washington and New Delhi should make some definitional and operational calibrations to their relationship. Additionally, America should expand its geographic conception of “Indo Pacific” beyond sea-based theatres and into land-based spaces, including the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This wider purview would strengthen US-India relations and serve US interests more broadly by expanding the scope for cooperation with Indo-Pacific states within the ambit of America's Asia policy.

Creator

Kugelman, Michael

Source

CLAWS Journal; Vol. 13 No. 2 (2020): Winter 2020; 1-11
2319-5177

Publisher

Centre For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India

Date

2020-12-31

Rights

Copyright (c) 2020 Center For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India
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Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

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Collection

Citation

Michael Kugelman, The Ladakh Crisis and the Opportunity for US-India Relations—with a Catch, Centre For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India, 2020, accessed December 24, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/2

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