India, Jan. 22 -- India's national interests lie in deepening ties with America.

The rise of China at the doorstep, the role of capital and technology in industrialisation, employment generation and national security, the importance of shaping global norms and conversations, the benefit of insurance policies in geopolitically adverse times, the doors that open up by being friends with the system's most powerful player, and the need to ensure that one's own interests are not hurt (or are hurt as minimally as possible) dictate that India cultivates the US. Washington DC remains - not fully but partly, and in conjunction with others - the most powerful international capital that can help Delhi meet its geopolitical and economic goals of sec...