Obama in India, a power that has already emerged

Obama has supported India's ambitions to sit as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, but China holds the key. The US will deepen its strategic alliance with India, even if this irritates Pakistan. India and the US share the desire to check the growing influence of China in the Indian Ocean. In India, Obama delivered two quotes to remember: "India has succeeded not in spite of democracy; India has succeeded because of democracy" and "India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged".