India-US relations won’t return to past highs even after trade deal, says Shyam Saran

https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/india-us-ties-unlikely-to-regain-past-strength-even-with-trade-deal-says-ex-foreign-secretary-shyam-saran-prnt/cid/2129575

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    1. India-US relations are unlikely to return to the upward trajectory of the past quarter-century even if a trade deal is achieved, former foreign secretary Shyam Saran said on Saturday.

    2. He endorsed as prudent Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decisions to skip this weekend’s Asean summit and the Gaza peace summit earlier this month, thereby avoiding possible meetings with US President Donald Trump.

    3. Saran suggested that the delay in reaching an India-US trade deal indicated a larger geopolitical challenge. “This is not about trade. This is about changed geopolitics. The Indo-Pacific strategy — which was a central kind of a node of US global strategy — has now diminished in importance for the United States,” he said.

    4. Saran cited “a personal pique element” as one possible reason behind Trump repeatedly embarrassing the Prime Minister by claiming to have brokered peace between India and Pakistan and saying Modi had agreed to cut back on purchases of Russian oil.

    5. Saran hopes India-US talks won’t get any worse than they have but warns “We cannot go back to square one; there is no square one left.”

    Trump’s turned an entire generation of Indians against Murica. And MAGAmurican white nationalists probably aren’t gonna give a single shit about a billion brown people hating them(It’ll actually make them happy) but it’s gonna cost them for the rest of the 21st century because Indians will see the US the same way China sees them – Limit engagements to strictly trade, make sweet talk about the partnership but with no real warmth, no love lost. Do deals if you have to, get whatever you need from them economically but besides that don’t give a single shit about American interests.

    Probably a few decades from now when India’s as strong as China is now the chickenhawks in the White House and Pentagon are gonna think of what a threat they are and start brainstorming ways to counter them. They’ll never spare a moment to think “WHY?” The reason a potential long-term ally became a potential long-term enemy is because Murica wanted it.

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