India

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India is also vulnerable to climate change-related disasters. Any adverse

effects to India could potentially spill over into the United States.

Coastal populations in India are, like vulnerable populations elsewhere in

South Asia, at high risk of inundation from rising sea levels and storms.218

Like China, India is an important trading partner for the United States.

India plays a crucial strategic role in the region as well, as a stable democracy

and counterweight to a nuclear Pakistan.219</p>