Where are India’s ties with the US and China headed in a third Narendra Modi term?

India’s general election results on Tuesday delivered an unexpected twist in the ongoing tale of the country’s popular yet polarising Hindu nationalist leader, Narendra Modi, unveiling a reality quite distant from a widely anticipated landslide victory.

With his Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition projected to narrowly secure the required majority to form a government, Modi, the twice-elected leader of the world’s largest democracy, appears poised to return as the country’s top elected official.