The possibility that Vice President Kamala Harris will be the first Indian-American to hold the office of US President makes Indians perhaps proud. Indian-Americans do significantly better than the average American in the areas of academia, finances, and the workplace. That’s a positive thing.
The United States gains a great deal from the Indian diaspora, from rocket research in Huntsville, Alabama, to medical care at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, to the invention of superconductors in Silicon Valley, California. It’s time for Indian Americans to gain the recognition they so well deserve.
But US-India ties could collapse under a Harris presidency. The Cold War-era foreign policy consensus in Washington has dissipated. Administration after administration has used foreign policy as a political game,