The growing India-US relationship is a seminal and significant strategic development for the global order signifying as it does the abandonment of British colonial views of Delhi by Washington. It is also just one facet of the future trend in the evolution of Asian geopolitics. There will be a series of bilateral and multilateral alliances formed with a single objective in mind: balance China. The now well known ‘Quad’ of the US, Australia, Japan and India is a powerful new g