US strategic experts have warned the administration led by President Donald Trump about the consequences of straining ties with India, a report cited on Saturday.

According to a report in 'Eurasia Review', top former US officials Kurt Campbell and Jake Sullivan remarked in an article in ‘Foreign Affairs’, that “the only thing harder than building and formalising a deeply significant relationship with India is not having one”.

The report said that the former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has also cautioned that damaging ties with India would effectively give China "a pass", amid Beijing's deepening relationship with Moscow.

"Tensions have recently surfaced in the US-India relationship, particularly after President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on India over its oil purc

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