Opinion content—editorials, columns and guest commentaries—is created independent of news reporting and is exclusive to subscribers.President Joe Biden and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on June 22, 2023.
President Joe Biden has encountered that disconnect several times in the last 2 ½ years, most notably with Saudi Arabia and the abysmal human rights record amassed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian leanings, and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right incursions into judicial independence.
oversees a government that violently cracks down on religious minorities, mostly Muslims and Christians.And yet, Modi leads a country that’s pivotal to U.S. global interests right now, as the Biden administration copes with the belligerence of Vladimir Putin and the long game of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Putin has been able to cushion the blow of U.S.-led sanctions on the Kremlin’s energy sector thanks to India’s voracious appetite for Russian oil. Since the war began in February 2022, India has dramatically increased the crude it buys from Russia, which now amounts to about 2 million barrels a day,TThat’s nearly half of India’s overall oil imports.
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