India, July 25 -- A limited deal needs to be a starting point for accepting changed geo-political realities in a post-Covid world.

2020 has been a year of resets, some would say a year of corrections and some as a year that laid bare the major inconsistencies in geo-economics, geo-politics and even geo-technology. The coronavirus pandemic has made nations not just realise their unsustainable dependence on China, but also highlighted the needs for strategic security partnerships to act as a counter-weight to the growing hegemonistic tendencies of Beijing. The present conversation around the Indo-US ties should also be seen through the same lens. Both New Delhi and Washington are acutely aware of the security challenges in the Indo-Pacifi...