Tawang, the regional center of a tiny slice of India wedged between Bhutan and China in a far-flung corner of India’s northeast Arunachal Pradesh state, is off the beaten track for foreign visitors. But from here the promise and complexity of the U.S.-India relationship are easy to see.
Our local host was the India Foundation, which has close relations with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Thanks to the foundation, a small delegation organized by the Hudson Institute (my think tank base in Washington) had been cleared to visit this sensitive border region. After about a three-hour flight from New Delhi, we boarded a helicopter for a 70-minute flight over Bhutan before landing at Tawang.
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