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China is one of the prime drivers of relationship between India and the United States – the two largest democracies of the world – not only in the last two decades but since India’s independence, a top Indian-American scholar has said in her latest book.

“Today, it is a truth almost universally acknowledged that China drives and shapes US-India relations. Indeed, broad convergence on China has been a key driver of US-India relations for the last two decades across US administrations and across Indian governments,” Tanvi Madan, a senior fellow at Foreign Policy and the director of India Project at the Brookings Institute told a Washington audience.

In her latest book ‘Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Relations during the Cold War’, she argues that China’s influence on the US-India relationship is neither a recent nor a momentary phenomenon.