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Being the world's two largest democracies, you'd think India and the US would have a strong relationship. But that was not so. India frequently refused to back America's foreign policy goals and even received aid and bought weapons from the Soviet Union. In return, the US backed the more autocratic Pakistan, particularly in the 1971 war. Given India's size and its strategic location near China, India would be an extremely useful ally. So how can we have Washington and New Delhi be the best of friends?
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