Stephen Cohen Against Quotations

The Indians are going to be careful. The Indians want to persuade the Americans that we are a potential partner for them strategically. On the other hand, they don't want to persuade the Chinese that they're linking up with the United States against China.

As long as that's the case, they can talk about working together against us, or sharing their views about us, but in fact they come to (work with) us in the last analysis.