New Delhi | 09 Mar 2026 |  External Affairs The  statement made by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau at the Raisina Dialogue 2026 in New Delhi is a major declaration of how the current U.S. administration views its economic and strategic partnership with India. By stating,  "We're not going to make the same mistakes with India that we made with China 20 years ago,"  Landau outlined a highly transactional, "America First" approach to the upcoming US-India Bilateral Trade Agreement. Here is an analysis of what this means for geopolitics and US-India relations: 1. What was the "Mistake with China"? Twenty years ago (in the early 2000s), the United States championed China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). Washington granted Beijing sweeping economic concessions, asymmetric market access, and massive foreign investment, operating under the belief that integrating China into the global economy would be mutually beneficial....