President Bush is determined to build a strong partnership with India based on what we already have in common — a common world vision; common core values of freedom, democracy, trade, and opportunity; and common threats from those who do not share these values.
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Will America’s partnership with India fall victim to politics?
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Last weekend marked the first anniversary of the horrific events at Andijan in Uzbekistan, a market town in the Ferghana Valley near the border with Kyrgyzstan, in Central Asia. There, a year ago, a protest by local folk against the antidemocratic policies of Uzbek ruler Islam Karimov--a classic post-Communist who remains a totalitarian in his methods--was met with bloody repression. The armed forces of the Uzbek state killed hundreds of people, chasing and slaying those who fled from the massacre.
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The Bush administration made a deal with this nation, India, to provide it with civilian nuclear technology. In the process, the administration effectively let India off the hook for its decades-old nuclear weapons program and made an exception to its otherwise strict refusal to provide civilian nuclear technology to nations that do not abide by certain in-ternational guidelines. The result, critics have asserted, is that other na-tions may be encouraged to follow India's path and that the nuclear non-proliferation "regime" has therefore been damaged.
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