It’s contradictory, the sale of the Boeing planes for Navy Recon purposes has been Okayed but not this.
Seems to me an extension of Hillary’s abandonment of the Tibetans and political dissidents and religious adherents for the sake of China buying our debt.
But the engines were also being considered for the carriers, hence a real helping hand to China by Obama.
Well, chances are the engines will be offered again just when the Indians are able to design and build one themselves.
Unlike many other countries the US is used to dealing with, India has shown in the past it is willing to invest in its own sci-tech to develop and build systems that are denied under various sanctions regimes to it.
O so I suspect.