India's rising, too

OP-ED: 'Forget the Israel Lobby. The Hill's Next Big Player Is Made in India.' By Mira Kamdar, Washington Post, September 30, 2007; Page B03

I do believe this is coming: the rise of Indian influence inside this country. Part will be the money and power attached to all those immigrants, part will be attached to our economy's ties to India, and part will be attached simply to India's own emergence on the world stage.

But have no doubt: in the future we'll pretty much always be asking India what it thinks about things before we do anything. That's how important India will become.

That's why simplistic approaches on Iran have to be avoided. Iran is a key harbinger of our ties with a lot of important New Core pillars besides our usual considerations with the EU, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Comments

[Dave]

I fully agree with this point and I think it will be amplified by the coming success of Indian-American politicians. Look no further than Bobby Jindal, the likely winner of the coming governor's race in Louisiana.

[William R. Cumming]

East-Indians are already a force in US society. They are active, engaged and smart about US/Indian relations and including the other south aisans. This could be really interesting. Just out of curiousity how many H1B visas go to Chinese and how many to South Asians? I wonder what the legal and illegal immigration numbers are on these populations.The wonder is that the largest democracy by luck seems to be governed by those for who English is frequently used language. Perhaps this alone is an advantage over the Chinese.