Barack Obama’s administration is now expected to do whatever it can to strengthen relations with India during Modi’s upcoming visit to Washington. As Nicholas Burns, a former under-secretary of state, has argued, US strategic interests in the century ahead will align more closely with India’s than with those of any other continental Asian power, making India central to America’s strategic rebalancing toward Asia.
如今，预计奥巴马政府将竭尽全力在莫迪即将到来的华盛顿之旅中加强印美关系。前副国务卿尼古拉斯·伯恩斯（Nicholas Burns）指出，美国在本世纪的战略利益与印度的联系胜过其他仍和亚洲大陆强国，这使得印度成为美国偏向亚洲的战略性再平衡的核心。