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FCRA Flashpoint: Why Rep. Chris Smith Pressed Rubio on India—and the Stakes for Civil Society

Representative Chris Smith’s call for Senator Marco Rubio to raise India’s FCRA in high-level talks has revived a sensitive debate: how to balance India’s sovereign right to regulate foreign funding with the need to protect legitimate civil-society and faith-based work. This analysis clarifies what the FCRA is, how it evolved (1976, 2010, 2020), and why…