In little over six weeks from now, the United States will elect its next President. Effectively, this makes the incumbent, Joe Biden, who opted not to stand again, a lame duck President.
Despite this political handicap, President Biden combined with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to enable unprecedented deepening of the existing relationship between the two countries—including creating the architecture to enable an unprecedented transfer of critical technology on design and manufacture of defence related semiconductors.
Is this then the point of inflection?
To unpack the import of the bilateral meetings StratNews Global spoke to Rahul Sharma, Managing Director, US-India Business Council.
Anil Padmanabhan has been a journalist for the last 36 years. He has worked in various capacities in several publications including Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Press Trust of India, Business Standard, Mint and was based in New York for India Today. He was a Nieman Fellow in 2001. He tweets at @capitalcalculus.
