Est-ce BHO tout seul qui a “perdu l’Inde”?

Est-ce BHO tout seul qui a “perdu l’Inde”?

Le commentateur de UPI Martin Walker attaque vigoureusement l’administration Obama pour avoir “perdu l’Inde”, ou être en train de la perdre. Poutine s’en est effectivement aperçu.

Walker met en évidence l’indifférence et la maladresse avec laquelle les USA d’Obama ont traité l'Inde, ce qui n'étonnera personne de la part des USA. (Le texte se trouve sur Spacewar.com le 15 mars 2010.)

«…Bush's legacy was a nuclear cooperation agreement, which allowed India to escape the nuclear isolation into which it was plunged after testing a nuclear weapon outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Bush's deal also opened the way for the United States to sell nuclear power stations, fuel and other technology to India and to forge a lasting strategic partnership.

»But for a host of reasons the Obama administration has let India slip down the list of its priorities. Not all of these reasons relate to Islamic terrorism, the war in Afghanistan and consequent urge to focus on Pakistan.

»The economic crisis has emphasized China's importance, as the country with the biggest trade surplus with the United States and as the second leading holder of U.S. securities after Japan. China's diplomatic role, as a member of the U.N. Security Council and thus wielding a veto, has also underlined China's pivotal position in U.S. attempts to curb the nuclear ambitions of Iran and north Korea.

»India understandably chafes at the sense that it plays second fiddle in Washington, lacking that network of institutional ties and official relationships that cement connections to other leading powers.

»“The U.S.-Indian relationship remains constrained,” notes Evan Feigenbaum, senior fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations and former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia and Central Asia. “Although U.S. officials hold standing dialogues about nearly every region of the world with their counterparts from Beijing, Brussels and Tokyo, no such arrangements exist with New Delhi.”

Other states, notably Russia, have not led India slip to the back burner… […]

»The real problem is fundamental. Indians complain that the Obama administration still sees India less as a great power in its own right, than as a walk-on player in two issues that worry Washington more. The first is the Afghan-Pakistan imbroglio and the second is U.S.-China relations. Obama's suggestion, during his cap-in-hand visit to Beijing, that China help the United States “manage” the Indo-Pakistan problem “led to the mistrust of Obama that today pervades the Indian establishment,” argues influential Indian commentator Professor Madhav Nalapat.

»“President Obama's policy of downgrading India to the level of a South Asian power is pushing Delhi closer toward Moscow and Beijing,” Nalapat adds. “If such an axis takes place, the ‘credit’ will go to the Obama administration. India sees itself as an Asian power with a global focus. Those unwilling to accept this cannot be defined as friends.”»

A ce point, on fera simplement remarquer que les vices que Walker découvre chez Obama, pour mieux faire paraître vertueuse l’administration GW Bush, se trouvaient effectivement dans cette administration GW Bush dès le départ. On rappellera la façon dont les USA de GW “découvrirent” l’Inde, en 2005, en annonçant purement et simplement qu’ils voulaient en faire leur instrument dans leur jeu contre la Chine. Dès 2006, certains pouvaient déjà apprécier la tournure de l’“alliance”, et le comportement de l’administration Obama n’a fait que confirmer cette même tendance qu’on retrouve dans la politique US, de traiter ses “alliés” en pions et serviteurs régionaux. Les dirigeants indiens ont mis un certain temps à s’en apercevoir.

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