With respect, I disagree. Strategic partnerships go further and deeper when based on shared domestic and international values. Policymakers in Western capitals are already saying privately that the relationship with India will now be more transactional, less values-based. 1/3 https://twitter.com/rohan_mukh/status/1309363283657359361">https://twitter.com/rohan_muk...
This surely affects the quality of partnership. E.g. it& #39;s close to impossible that the US-India nuclear deal could have happened in the absence of US perceptions of, & rhetoric around, domestically-focused shared identity, as well as outward Indian democratic benevolence. 2/3