America helped China integrate into the global economy, opened its markets, shared technology and allowed Western investment to pour into Chinese industry. Decades later, Washington increasingly believes it helped create its greatest strategic rival.
Now India is rising.
Recent comments from Vice President JD Vance and senior US officials reveal a striking change in American thinking. Washington appears determined not to repeat what it now calls the “China mistake” — raising a difficult question for New Delhi: does America genuinely want a powerful India, or does it only want India strong enough to help balance China?
In this GVS Deep Dive, Najma Minhas examines the profound shift taking place in American foreign policy. From manufacturing and semiconductor controls to AI, defence technology, trade and supply chains, economic growth is increasingly being treated as a national security issue.
The US still needs India in the Indo-Pacific. But an India that becomes a major manufacturing, technological and economic power could eventually emerge as an independent centre of global power.
So can Washington encourage India’s rise while simultaneously trying to manage it?
And has America’s fear of China fundamentally changed how it views every future rising power?
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