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A shift in India’s geopolitical alignment?

It might be tempting to view recent developments - including a breakthrough in talks with China on the disputed Himalayan border and the diplomatic spat with Canada - as signalling that India is slipping away from the West and into the orbit of China, or at least into a position of non-alignment. That would be a momentous shift given India’s size and growth potential. But we don’t think these developments are evidence of a fundamental realignment. 

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