Bush's Passage to India: Why Does India Carry His Water?

COUNTERPUNCH

A few days from now, Bush will go to India and reaffirm his newfound love, becoming the only Republican President to visit India after Nixon. Bush and his 'mouthpieces' are quite vocal about their need of India - to compete with the EU, to check China, to control unpredictable regimes and to expand the war on terrorism etc. But it is quite interesting to note how India's consistent positive response to these advances is generally taken as paradoxical, or else simply as succumbing to 'external' pressures. However if we take notice of the transformation of Indian capitalism and of the aspirations of the Indian ruling class, we can easily find the reason behind this mutuality.

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