It is said that Modi's visit to Washington, where he proclaimed his "historic" alliance with the United States at just the juncture where the US is trying to draw us ever closer into the net it is throwing around China, immediately preceded Modi's dash to Tashkent to fall at Xi's feet to beg Chinese support.


The first is that Westinghouse is only nominally an American company and it was bought by Japan's Toshiba in 2006 and Japan's IHI is also invested in Westinghouse and it is only Japanese companies like Japan Steel Works that have the capacity to make the large forgings that must go into the construction of Westinghouse reactors.


It is said that all three are deeply suspicious of an India that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), is armed with nuclear weapons and is in confrontation with two other nuclear-armed states, China and Pakistan.


In short, the December joint statement amounted to confessing that there is an agreement to agree but until an agreement is reached, the lack of agreement would keep disagreement simmering.



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