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Article: America and the un-China. (On India) (Column)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 23, 1994
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"India is half as important as China and gets one tenth the attention." This reckoning, by a high administration official, is at least half right. India, despite its much touted status as the world's biggest democracy, has been off the screens of successive governments in Washington, partly because it was seen as too close to the Russians, partly because it wasn't causing enough trouble. Recently it joined the lengthening list of diplomatic disaster areas in Asia because some minor American gaffes were blown wildly out of proportion in Delhi. This week's visit to the United States by India's 72-year-old prime minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao, is mainly for soothing India's ...