These are tough times for the India-U.S. strategic partnership. Indeed, over the last 25 years, and especially in the last five to 10 years, the India-U.S. strategic partnership has flourished due to many common interests and concerns, not the least of which is the need to counter China throughout the Indo-Pacific. This has promoted closer India-U.S. strategic relations – and nothing has fundamentally changed since then. However, given the currently abysmal state of India-U.S. relations, Modi’s visit had added symbolic meaning. In practice, this means continuing to maintain a close working strategic partnership with not only the United States, but Russia and China as well.