Clinton warms to India.
President Bill Clinton's March 2000 visit to India, intended to warm relations with between the two nations, has increased the pressure on the military government in Pakistan. Less than two years after India earned worldwide opprobrium by testing nuclear weapons, India has bleached, if not erased,...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 354; no. 8163; pp. 41 - 43 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
March 25 2000
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=507685392&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 507685392 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00130613 ECO jtl: Economist issn: 00130613 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: March 25 2000 vid: 354 iid: 8163 pid: 161 pub: Economist Newspaper Limited artinfo: ui: 507685392 ppf: 41 ppct: 2 formats: tig: atl: Clinton warms to India. aug: su: India-United States relations Pakistan-United States relations Kashmir conflict (India & Pakistan) sug: subj: India-United States relations Pakistan-United States relations Kashmir conflict (India & Pakistan) keyword: Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Visit to India, 2000 Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Visit to South Asia, 2000 ab: President Bill Clinton's March 2000 visit to India, intended to warm relations with between the two nations, has increased the pressure on the military government in Pakistan. Less than two years after India earned worldwide opprobrium by testing nuclear weapons, India has bleached, if not erased, two problematic stigmas: it's status as a rogue nuclear power and its image as a squabbling sibling of its troublesome neighbor, Pakistan. Clinton's visit demonstrated that neither of these issues would deter him from treating India as a rising geopolitical power and a potential economic one. The main result of the visit so far is an agreement on “institutional dialogue,” which is aimed in part at helping the new U.S.-Indian friendship outlast Clinton's term as president. However, the visit did not resolve disputes on trade, and India got little satisfaction on its request for additional work visas for computer programmers. The apparent accord between both countries on Kashmir—that Pakistan should make the first move toward dialogue—places pressure on Pakistan's military regime to reduce tensions with India. pubtype: Periodical doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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