Article
The United States, India, and the China Challenge: A Reflection

By : Robert Peters

Page No: 388-399

Abstract
The United States and India share a common threat from China. Building upon the February 2025 visit to Washington by Prime Minister Modi, there are a number of avenues the United States and India can take in both broadening and deepening their defense relationship. This includes: loosening foreign military sales restrictions; improving licensing and co-production arrangements; and exercises. Specifically this article examines how both nations can 1) meet the China challenge in multiple domains; 2) develop areas for co-production and foreign military sales to benefit both nations’ militaries and defence industrial bases; and 3) develop a road-map for long-term cooperation between both nations that will better enable Delhi and Washington to counter the threats posed by Beijing.

Author
Robert Peters is the Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence at the Heritage Foundation. He served for 17 years in the Department of Defense and has written widely on various defense topics.
 

DOI: http://doi.org/10.32381/NS.2025.08.03.8