By Sarang Shidore
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The rise of China and a dangerous impasse with Pakistan pose new challenges to New Delhi and are pushing a reluctant India into a closer partnership with the United States.
Despite key successes, India's economic problems are huge, and they remain the biggest barrier to rising to great power status.