With AUKUS Dividing the Western Bloc, is there a Role for India?
THE INDIAN EXPRESS
APLN member C. Raja Mohan, director of the National University of Singapore’s Institute of South Asian Studies, explores India’s opportunities for strategic cooperation with France and Europe as well as the Quad and the Anglosphere in the aftermath of the divisive impact of the AUKUS deal.
More than four decades ago, Washington decided to end its commitment to supply nuclear fuel for the Tarapur Atomic Power Station that it helped build. That decision was triggered by the sharp reaction in the US Congress against India’s 1974 nuclear test. India was furious with American unilateralism.
Illustration: C R Sasikumar, The Indian Express.
