US-India relations: Fallout from killing of Canadian Sikh activist may complicate Joe Biden’s efforts to counter China

On September 18, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rose in the country’s House of Commons to make an emergency statement on what he described as “an extremely serious matter”.

He claimed that “agents of the government of India” were likely behind the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar – a Canadian citizen who advocated the once-strong movement for a separate country for Sikhs known as Khalistan – in Vancouver in June.