Obama's 2 Billion Dollar Trip To India. hmm

India has a fast growing emerging economy so it’s paving the way for many rewarding business opportunities. It would be foolish not take such an opportunity.
 
So is the USA paying for this, or are India paying for it, and by India, I mean us by proxy, since we send over enough "aid" to the nuclear armed country, which has a better space program than us? That it wouldn't surprise me.
 
KNiVES said:
India should pony up to China, not the US.
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Despite their geographic locations the US and India have a lot more in common. Namely language, democratic values and a problem with militant Muslims. I work with a lot of Indians and they come across as being far more western than they do Far East Asian.
 
KNiVES said:
India should pony up to China, not the US.
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Agreed, why bother with a country that's more skint and further away. It makes sense to cosy up to a neighbour. However there are ideological reasons as to why that wouldn't work.

Who knows, perhaps they already 'thought' about it. There has to be a very good reason why the US has decided for a show to the subcontinent.

Stretch said:
Despite their geographic locations the US and India have a lot more in common. Namely language, democratic values and a problem with militant Muslims. I work with a lot of Indians and they come across as being far more western than they do Far East Asian.
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There are militant Muslims in China too. The Chinese are pretty ruthless though. Though with them who knows what's going on. :p

simulatorman said:
Why on earth would they want to pony up with that wonderfully developed communist state which has nothing to offer to them.
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As usual, lol.
 
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100 years time the US will be dancing to India's tune so they're acting the big man on the block while they still can :p
 
C'mon folks. There is always a risk of Pakistan being taken over by an extremist Islamic regime. That means that the USA want bases and allies as close as possible. This visit to India is about Pakistan. And, with Pakistan having a Nuclear capability the stakes are very high indeed. Far in excess of two billion.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
As usual, lol.
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Not really, India and China are direct competitors on the world market, both in manufacturing and service jobs. Neither do, or make, anything the other doesn't, and to raise their economies they need to sell to the developed western countries.
 
bam0 said:
Not really, India and China are direct competitors on the world market, both in manufacturing and service jobs. Neither do, or make, anything the other doesn't, and to raise their economies they need to sell to the developed western countries.
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Oh true, but imagine if they were cosying up to one another. The potential there is massive.

The US would be helping to look after itself by wading in, whether it be for economic reasons or not it seems.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
Oh true, but imagine if they were cosying up to one another. The potential there is massive.

The US would be helping to look after itself by wading in, whether it be for economic reasons or not it seems.
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Potential for what? China already artificially suppresses its currency value and the rate both countries are going there isn't really enough to share. Politically the Chinese would never go for an equal partners kind of deal.
But you're right that the US is doing this for its own benefit, as open as China may be now it's still a heavily authoritarian single party country that already owns a huge amount of US debt.
 
Stretch said:
Despite their geographic locations the US and India have a lot more in common. Namely language, democratic values and a problem with militant Muslims. I work with a lot of Indians and they come across as being far more western than they do Far East Asian.
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you say this because youve only met indians born and brought up in a western country. indians brought up in the mother country will be much much different.
 
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