The power triad of US, UK and India - Daily News & Analysis

via Daily News & Analysis: "As we look forward in the twenty-first century, the world’s geopolitical realities are likely to create another era for the special relationship. Both India and China are forecast as the rising powers, slated to join the United States as the great powers of this century. Europe is unlikely to achieve fully effective unity, and therefore will play an important but not pivotal role.

Regardless of whether the US-Chinese relationship evolves into an amicable or hostile one, the relationship between the United States and India has all the marks of a special one. And Britain shares in this — through language, democratic values and institutions, shared culture (we are all reading each other’s literature), a common approach to business and markets."