Pakistan’s chief of army staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, issuing nuclear threats against India from American soil is perhaps the new normal in India-US relations in the age of Trump. Though the US President has grown more restrained in recent days, the shock of Donald Trump wielding open trade threats at India now threatens to derail the hard work done by successive Indian and US administrations since the end of the Cold War in shaping the positive trajectory of this bilateral relationship. As Pakistani generals are feted in Washington and reports emerge of a possible trip to China by Trump via Pakistan sometime soon, cold warriors in Delhi are out in full force, reminding the nation “we told you so.”
The Trump Challenge to India-US Convergence (Harsh V. Pant – Observer Research Foundation)
Related articles
