Wikileaks blows whistle at US, India relationship

The whistle blower ‘Wikileaks’ has recently leaked several US diplomatic cables regarding US-India relationship. Those cable claimed that a warm and intimate looking relationship had a lot of differences at many issues.

Reportedly, one of the cables revealed that the US preferred to hide the Indo-US ties, as India was being much more amenable towards America, because of popular suspicion of American motives and latent anti-Americanism.

It has been reported that 4,000 cables from the US embassy in New Delhi claimed that an improving warm relationship between an emerging power, which was anxious about its security despite its size and booming economic, and a superpower that was keen to be friends but very much on its own term.

One of the cables revealed that in May 2008 Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon had a resentful and angry exchange with US ambassador David Mulfort over Iran, after a short trip by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Delhi.

The cable claimed that the US diplomats said that they would prefer India to be less friendly towards the ruling military government and worked to encourage democracy over Myanmar issue.

It further reveals that one Indian was reported as saying that democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s day had come and gone.
The cable claimed that in some way Iran was getting non-governmental help from India and making distributions in charities in order to fuel anti-Americanism.

One of the cables revealed that Indian officials were reluctant to admit publically that India and US had begun coordinating foreign policy.

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