Obama Backs India for Seat on Security Council - NYTimes.com:
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NEW DELHI — President Obama announced here on Monday that the United States will back India’s bid for a permanent seat on an expanded United Nations Security Council, a major policy shift that could aggravate China, which opposes such a move.
I suspect we're going to want (and need) close relations with India as our primacy on the world scene is superseded by the giant economies of Asia and the sub-continent in the years ahead.