Joe Biden is rolling out the red carpet and more for India's prime minister. The halls are decked for Narendra Modi's first White House state banquet. It's just one illustration of how much clout a diaspora of four-and-a-half million carries in the United States and of how strategic India has become in superpower showdowns.
The US announcement of plans to transfer warplane engine technology to Delhi offers quite the contrast from the days India turned to Russia for weapons and the US armed Pakistan.
