{"id":56124,"date":"2023-06-21T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jun\/21\/narenda-modi-washington-dc-biden-white-house-visit-india-china"},"modified":"2023-06-21T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:00:38","slug":"india-is-now-a-linchpin-us-looks-to-narendra-modis-visit-to-counter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56124","title":{"rendered":"\u2018India is now a linchpin\u2019: US looks to Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to counter China"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Biden administration will try to strengthen US-India ties while the Indian leader looks to shore up votes for next year\u2019s election<\/p>\n

The symbolism of the visit will be hard to avoid. As Narendra Modi<\/a> arrives in Washington DC on Wednesday \u2013 the capital of a country he was once prohibited from visiting for almost 10 years \u2013 he will join the ranks of Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Volodymyr Zelenskiy as one of the few leaders to address a joint session of Congress more than once.<\/p>\n

Statements from US officials ahead of the visit have been rapturous on the subject of US-India relations, praising the \u201csignificant defence partnership\u201d and describing it as \u201ca unique connection between the world\u2019s oldest and largest democracies\u201d. Before his departure from India, Modi said: \u201cThis special invitation is a reflection of the vigour and vitality of the partnership between our democracies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Biden administration will try to strengthen US-India ties while the Indian leader looks to shore up votes for next year\u2019s electionThe symbolism of the visit will be hard to avoid. As Narendra Modi arrives in Washington DC on Wednesday \u2013 the capital…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2003,41,50,62,939,433,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-blinken","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-india","category-joe-biden","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56125,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56124\/revisions\/56125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}