As trade negotiations between the US and India drag on, many people are looking at Indian actions as a sign of the nation’s foreign policy re-alignment. Those projections are relatively nonsensical. While we should not dismiss these actions as mere window dressing, they are the acts of an independent nation with various categories of interests—some align with India’s strongest allies; some diverge. We live in an era where all-or-nothing diplomatic actions have been replaced by discrete actions by nations in an attempt to do what is best for their citizens; and that is something that “America First” assumes will happen.
Thus recent overtures by China toward India are often interpreted to mean more than that. Hence this issue of India’s Foreign Policy Research Centre. I try to put all of this into contexts and analytical understandings. My interview is on pages 25-30.
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