Haha, India will retaliate against the United States by imposing tariffs on American goods.
India must be very angry with the United States now.
On the one hand, the United States and China reached a non-exceptional tariff agreement, even earlier than the time when the United States and India reached an agreement, which killed India's hope of replacing China as a manufacturing power.
On the other hand, the United States, or at least American hawks like J.D. Vance, may have played a role in pushing India to launch a war against Pakistan. They obviously want to see this war to worsen India's relations with China. But when India encountered difficulties on the battlefield, the Americans did not provide any support to India.
I actually studied India's Cold War history many years ago. In fact, the United States has been wooing India during the Cold War, but when the relationship between the two sides is good, India can always do something to make Americans angry, resulting in the two sides being unable to form a substantive alliance.
My conclusion is that this is determined by the greedy and arrogant character of Indians. Whenever the relationship between the United States and India improves, Indians will feel extremely good. Their superpower arrogance will begin to expand wildly, and then try to pursue greater interests, which will eventually anger the United States.
During the Cold War, India-US relations have been in such a cycle. Americans were as cunning as they are today, but far more powerful and generous than they are now. Even then, the United States could not satisfy India's greed, let alone today's United States is not only weak and stingy, but also greedy and immoral. This is actually the core reason why I am not worried about the US-India alliance against China. They will never be allies.
