--- title: John Kerry Might Face a Warmer Welcome in India Than Israel description: New Delhi has suggested that it's committed to an improved economic relationship with the U.S. canonical: https://time.com/3051236/john-kerry-hopes-for-warmer-welcome-in-india-after-israel-fiasco/ author: Mirren Gidda article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-29T17:32:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:23:23.497Z article:section: World og:title: John Kerry Might Face a Warmer Welcome in India Than Israel og:description: New Delhi has suggested that it's committed to an improved economic relationship with the U.S. og:url: https://time.com/3051236/john-kerry-hopes-for-warmer-welcome-in-india-after-israel-fiasco/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt365049d0f0354362/69869da3f983e70ce704f078/kerry_israel_gaza.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about terms of a cease-fire in fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on July 25, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: John Kerry Might Face a Warmer Welcome in India Than Israel twitter:description: New Delhi has suggested that it's committed to an improved economic relationship with the U.S. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt365049d0f0354362/69869da3f983e70ce704f078/kerry_israel_gaza.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # John Kerry Hopes for Warmer Welcome in India After Israel Fiasco > Sponsored content. 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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about terms of a cease-fire in fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on July 25, 2014.Charles Dharapak—AP by [Mirren Gidda](https://time.com/author/mirren-gidda/) ## Mirren Gidda Jul 29, 2014 5:32 PM UTC **Correction**: Appended, July 31. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will fly to New Delhi on Wednesday in a bid to improve Washington’s relationship with India. He is undoubtedly hoping the visit will go well. Kerry, after all, has not had the best week. On Friday, the Secretary of State left Egypt with his tail between his legs having [failed](http://time.com/3035132/israel-cease-fire-protests-west-bank/) to broker a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Things got worse for him Monday after the cease-fire framework he helped draft was leaked to Israeli newspaper _Haaretz_, which called it a “prize for terror.” _Haaretz_, which is normally considered left-leaning, [claimed](http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.607379) the former Democratic senator was like “an alien, who just disembarked his spaceship in the Mideast.” This was hardly the reaction Kerry and his team expected from one of the U.S.’s staunchest allies. On Monday, spokesperson Jen Psaki said: “We sent them a clearly labeled confidential draft of ideas… This draft… of ideas was based on the Egyptian proposal that they had supported from just weeks … just a couple of weeks before that.” Luckily for Kerry, experts say he’s likely to receive a friendlier welcome when he arrives in India this week. “The Indians would like a good relationship with the U.S.,” says Ronald Granieri, executive director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’sCenter for the Study of America and the West. “The U.S.-India relationship is fundamentally a very important one,”adds Xenia Wickett, project director of Chatham House’s U.S. Program. “There’s a recognition on both sides that this could be a very positive and strategic relationship.” That’s not to say the ground is completely smooth ahead of Kerry’s India trip. In recent days, the Indian media has highlighted the December [arrest](http://world.time.com/2013/12/17/indian-diplomats-arrest-in-new-york-sparks-row-with-u-s/) of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who was accused of falsifying her housekeeper’s papers and underpaying her. Media outlets have claimed that this has soured relations with India, impeding Kerry’s visit. Then there’s India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was denied a U.S. visa in 2005 for failing to halt the 2002 Hindu-led riots which occurred when he was chief minister of Gujarat. The mobs killed 1,000 people, the majority of which were Muslims. Wickett, who has just returned from India, is unconvinced that either of these events will hurt Kerry’s visit. “Within the new government… there is a much more rational sense of what’s important. This will not affect bilateral relations.” Modi, after all, was first denied a visa by the Bush administration. Khobragade was arrested during the former Indian administration. But what about trade relations? The waters of U.S.-India relations were muddied at the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva, when member states had [agreed](http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/07/25/india-trade-wto-idINKBN0FU0O220140725) to a reform of custom rules but India demanded that a deal on stockpiling, scheduled for 2017, be reached now. That demand threatens to derail the anticipated reform, and has been met with criticism from the U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, Michael Punke, who said he was “extremely discouraged” by Indian negotiators’ intransigence. These tensions can easily be put aside in favor of pursuing mutually beneficial relations, says Milan Vaishnav, associate in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “The new government in India recognizes that if they were elected on a platform of getting the economy back on track, they need the U.S,” he says. “This is a relationship that has been gathering speed for the past decade.” “If the Indian economy grows, the U.S. will do well and \[any future\] trade disputes will fade into the background,” he adds. Strategically too, both sides need each other. If the U.S. and India can forge greater economic ties, it reduces the reliance that both countries have on the Chinese economy. “The U.S. would like a better relationship with India as they start to see China as a strategic rival,” comments Granieri. All of that said, Kerry’s visit to New Delhi is unlikely to make great waves. Modi is due to visit the U.S. in September to meet with President Barack Obama and it is then, according to Granieri that any new initiatives would be announced. “Modi wouldn’t want to devalue the importance of his September visit,” he says. Nevertheless Kerry is likely to be greeted with open arms when he disembarks from his spaceship on Wednesday. His job too, will be far easier than it was in Egypt. “It’s not a heavy lift \[this time\],” notes Vaishnav. “I think that it’s going to go pretty well, the trip is largely symbolic rather than substantive.” Surely that’s a welcome alternative to brokering peace in the Middle East. **Correction**: The original version of this story incorrectly identified Narendra Modi and Michael Punke. 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