NEW DELHI–Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on his first-ever three-day state visit to the United States. His visit is expected to strengthen defense and technological cooperation between the two countries, as Modi seeks to bolster India’s place at the world’s top table.
The event has attracted headlines in China as well, where communist leaders and media alike have traditionally downplayed U.S.-India relations—and now accuse the United States of fomenting even deeper discord between India and China. In his pre-departure interview with The Wall Street Journal, however, Modi said that any improvement in India-China relations would depend primarily upon the situation on their mutual—and hotly disputed—border in the Himalaya Mountains….
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