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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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An election campaign banner showing Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands with Narendra Modi on September 11, 2019, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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Party flags of Bharatiya Janta Party outside of Mumbai on April 5, 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Narendra Modi and Joe Biden at the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, on November 15, 2022. (India's Ministry of External Affairs via Flickr)
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari at the State Department in Washington, DC, on September 26, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vehicles of senior Indian army officers pass through the snow-cleared Srinagar-Leh highway on March 19, 2022, in Kashmir, India. (Yawar Nazir via Getty Images)
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Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office in Washington, DC, on September 24, 2021. (Sarahbeth Maney-Pool/Getty Images)
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US President Joe Biden meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House on September 24, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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A pedestrian walks past the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai on November 26, 2021. (Photo by PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Aparna Pande
Research Fellow, India and South Asia
