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Joining Nato would be a strategic blunder for India
Despite their long-running border dispute, India needs Chinese trade and technology far more than US military ‘protection’ which would prevent it from catching up with the West, writes KEITH LAMB

AFTER a recommendation by the congressional committee on strategic competition with China, the US claims that India “is one of Washington’s closest allies.” As such, it is now courting India to join Nato to counter Chinese “aggression.”

India must not fall to Washington’s flattery and the trumped-up China threat. Strategically and economically, India’s future lies with greater co-operation with China and the global South, not Nato, which opposes development.

In terms of Chinese “aggression,” the US hypes up the border dispute. This dispute is a remnant of British colonialism annexing Chinese territory.

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