When Secretary of State Marco Rubio touched down in India last Saturday, he walked into a U.S.-India relationship fraying at the seams. The trip included cultural visits and high-level meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, as well as a meeting of Quad foreign ministers. The visit was designed to help repair U.S.-India ties, which Rubio himself has referred to as a “defining relationship of the 21st century.”

It’s a major repair job.