# Fateful Triangle

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- Book: [Fateful Triangle](https://www.bookquiver.com/tanvi-madan/fateful-triangle) ([Fateful Triangle.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tanvi-madan/fateful-triangle.md))
- Authors: [Tanvi Madan](https://www.bookquiver.com/tanvi-madan)
- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-06-7009-375-5
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2022-08-01
- Language: en_IN
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

A key question today is whether India and the United States can or should develop ever-closer ties as a way of countering China’s desire to be the dominant power in the broader Asian region. In Fateful Triangle , Tanvi Madan argues that history shows that such a partnership is neither inevitable nor impossible. Drawing on documents from India and the US, Fateful Triangle contends that China’s influence on the US-India relationship is not a recent phenomenon. It demonstrates that US and Indian perceptions of and their policies towards China shaped US-India relations in three crucial decades, from 1949 to 1979, in significant and complex ways. Fateful Triangle updates our understanding of the diplomatic history of US-India relations, highlighting China’s central role in it, reassesses the origins and practice of Indian foreign policy and non-alignment, and provides historical context to the interactions between the three countries.