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India's Hopes for Kamala Harris 06 Wednesday, August 26, 2020 ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2006 HAMAD BIN SUHAIM AL THANI CHAIRMAN Opinion ADEL ALI BIN ALI MANAGING DIRECTOR DR HASSAN MOHAMMED AL ANSARI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The US Needs A Realistic Russia Strategy India’s Hopes For Washington must send clear signals to Putin about the kinds of behaviour the US deems unacceptable Kamala Harris HE suspected poisoning of Russian oppo- More recently, Trump has refused to re- sition leader Alexei Navalny underscores spond to intelligence assessments that Rus- To some sections in the Indian establishment, Harris could play a key role in a Tthe dangers Russians face for speaking out sian operatives paid bounties to Taliban against President Vladimir Putin. It’s also a fighters to kill US troops. The US should possible Biden presidency, making her a useful and influential ally to have warning to those currently protesting for avoid a rush to judgment, but the president’s democratic change in neighboring Belarus. willingness to side with the Kremlin’s version PRANAY SHARMA So long as Putin remains at the helm, Russia of events, rather than that of his own intelli- TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE will continue to pose a serious threat to dem- gence agencies, is disturbing. At a minimum, ocratic values, in its periphery and beyond. the White House should suspend high-level S Senator Kamala Harris’ emer- A coherent strategy to confront this chal- communication with Moscow while it con- gence on the American national lenge will be essential for the next US admin- ducts a thorough investigation. If the deaths scene has created a huge splash in istration. It should include responding more of American troops are traced back to Rus- the United States as well as in India. directly to Putin’s provocations, raising the sian operatives, the US should impose a cost But her nomination as Democratic costs for Russian misconduct and strength- that will make Putin regret those actions. Upresidential candidate Joe Biden’s running ening America’s relationships with its NATO As during the Cold War, the US should mate has led to widespread enthusiasm allies. The US shouldn’t rule out cooperation look for ways to manage tensions and reduce among different sections in India. Some with Moscow in areas of mutual interest, but the risks of catastrophic escalation. Russia have already begun to appropriate her. only when doing so demonstrably advances lacks the economic power to compete with The California senator has not visited its own security. the US, but it possesses the world’s biggest India since her mother died 11 years ago. Above all, Washington must send clear nuclear arsenal and a larger military budget She came to India, carrying her mother’s signals to Putin about the kinds of behav- than any European country. Extending and ashes, to honour her dying wish and has iour the US deems unacceptable. The Trump strengthening the New START treaty, a bi- not returned since. Born of a Jamaican fa- administration’s policies have instead been lateral arms-control agreement that’s due ther and an Indian mother, Harris is the characterised by inconstancy. Since 2017, to expire next February, is critical for the se- first woman of Black or Indian heritage — the US has imposed sanctions against Rus- curity of both countries. Seeking collabora- much less both – to be nominated to such sian individuals and some government enti- tion in areas of shared concern — on climate a key position by any major political party ties for a range of actions, from conducting change, say, or space policy — would also in America. The excitement that it has cyberattacks to meddling in Ukraine to poi- make sense. sparked in the United States and elsewhere soning a former Russian spy living in the UK Engaging with Putin, however, should not in the world, particularly India, is there- Yet the impact of these measures has been mean placating him. Consistent messaging, fore, predictable. blunted by Trump’s resistance to tougher tougher deterrence measures and resolute But many of those in India trying to beians and the elite, it has also evoked a tors of the Narendra Modi government are penalties, his acceptance of Putin’s denial support for allies are essential to a successful claim Harris as their own not only hate her wide range of emotions in an already po- hopeful that if attacks on democratic forces of interference in the 2016 election and his strategy. Continued drift will only embolden being identified as Black, they also ignore larised society. Most reacted according to in India were to continue, then the future push to welcome Russia back into the Group Putin and his operatives, to the detriment of her mixed-race parentage, highlighting their own perception of what the nomina- VP and other members of the Biden admin- of Seven club of industrial nations. America’s security and the world’s. only her Indian origins. tion meant. istration would not hesitate to pull up India. True, Harris and her sister were brought To some sections in the Indian estab- But seasoned Indian diplomats point (TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE) up by their mother, Shyamala Gopalan, af- lishment, Harris, who could play a key role out that even in the 1990s the United States ter her parents’ divorce. However, the US in a possible Biden presidency, might be a had regularly lectured India on the human senator has always identified herself as Af- useful and influential ally to have. Though rights situation in Kashmir and elsewhere rican American not Asian or Indian Ameri- bipartisan support for strong India-US ties in the country. This has not detracted India can, even though she has often stressed her could also be expected under a Democratic from defending its position and pursuing mother’s influence on her—most famously dispensation, some members of a Biden its preferred policies. with the lines: “There is no title or honour administration might tend to be over-crit- India’s stature on the international Trump’s Attacks On on earth I’ll treasure more than to say I am ical of India for its pronounced pro-Trump stage has grown substantially in the past Shyamala Gopalan Harris’s daughter.” tilt in the past few years. few decades. So have its relations with the In the American political landscape Harris’ nomination has especially en- United States, which now considers India Legal Immigration Harris has always identified herself as thused liberals in India. Reeling under a key partner in Asia. Therefore, on issues Black. But since her nomination, she has their marginalisation in a political land- where the two sides have differing posi- AMALA Harris isn’t just the first Black He endorsed a bill cutting legal immi- also been talking pointedly about her Indi- scape dominated by the Bharatiya Janata tions, discussions would likely be held be- woman on major-party presidential gration half. He issued a series of admin- an roots, perhaps in an attempt to reach out Party (BJP), the right-wing ruling party, hind closed doors, not in public. Kticket; she’s the child of immigrants, istrative decisions making the uphill trek to the nearly 4 million-strong important India’s liberals feel Harris’ presence in a Moreover, Harris, who sees herself as an economist dad from Jamaica and a to America into the steepest incline im- Indian-American constituency. During her future US administration could act as a de- a possible future president of the United cancer-researcher mom from India. The aginable. He used the pandemic as cover acceptance speech upon being nominated terrent to perceived government excesses States, may refrain from taking “too criti- pedigree speaks powerfully to the Ameri- to freeze the flow of legal immigrants as the Democratic Party’s vice presidential against democratic forces. cal” a stand against India for fear of jeop- can story, and is yet another reason Don- he had already slowed, including highly candidate on Thursday, she sent Tamils The liberals in India point out that Indi- ardising her relationship with Delhi. ald Trump should be disqualified from a skilled immigrants who bring the big- across the world into a frenzy with her line an governments have been more sensitive Of course, the entire debate is prema- second term. gest economic benefit. That has made it that “family is my uncles, my aunts and my to their image abroad than to domestic crit- ture, premised as it is on a still-hypothetical On the campaign trail, Trump claimed that much easier for many of the world’s chithis” — aunt in Tamil, one of the oldest icism. Unlike current US President Donald Democratic victory in the November 2020 to revile illegal immigration but revere the smartest, most enterprising people to Indian languages spoken in Tamil Nadu, Trump, who chose to ignore a violent com- presidential election. But as the situation legal kind. In his 2019 State of the Union choose Canada over the United States. the southern state in India, in Sri Lanka as munal clash in Delhi while he was in the pans out in the United States, Harris might speech, he one-upped himself, ad-libbing To top it off, Trump nearly doubled well as by the Tamil diaspora. Indian capital, the reaction of a Democratic be guided by pragmatism to be a long-term that he wanted to admit legal immigrants the cost of legal immigrants applying to For many in India, the “feel-good” fac- president could have been very different. player rather than a fiery human rights in “the largest numbers ever.” But led by become a US citizen, turning the Ameri- tor stems not just from Harris’ success in a Pro-BJP sections both in the United activist who could burn herself out before the ear by his notorious anti-immigrant ad- can beacon into a faint light receding on foreign country, but in the United States — States and in India, on the other hand, have 2024 — when she could be the Democratic viser Stephen Miller, Trump been building the horizon.
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