India is testing America’s friendship
Its partnership with the West is strong but not unbreakable
A WEEK HAS passed since Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, told Parliament of “credible intelligence” linking India to the killing in June of a Canadian Sikh activist, Hardeep Singh Nijjar. In those few days, relations between Canada and India have gone from bad to worse. That is serious enough. But the bigger question is what might happen to America’s until-now rapidly deepening ties with the South Asian giant.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Indian overreach”
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