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The farrago in Russia is only the second-biggest case of autocratic misjudgment in the news. China pushing India's Narendra Modi into America’s muscular embrace is the one with century-shaping potential. Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova /AFP via Getty Images The most populous nation on Earth does not need a great power patron. For much of the cold war India was non-aligned – “at best”, some in Washington would say with bitterness. Its present leader has ideas about concentrated power, about religion and the state, that break somewhat with the Federalist Papers. There is nothing ordained or inevitable, therefore, about India’s turn to...
