Narendra Modi embraces Donald Trump upon his arrival in Ahmedabad on February 24, 2020. PHOTO: AFP
How India’s regional strategy is adapting to the post-Trump reality
In this changing environment, India no longer plays the same role for American strategy as before
India surprised many of its critics by successfully carrying out the synchronised disengagement of its forces along the northern Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China as well as agreeing to a de facto ceasefire along its western LAC with Pakistan. These developments prove that India’s regional strategy is adapting to the post-Trump reality. The South Asian state will still remain among America’s top strategic partners anywhere in the world, but the Biden Administration doesn’t seem as interested in instrumentalising this relationship as part of its declared “Great Power competition” as the previous one was. After all, President Biden’s team is currently reviewing every aspect of their country’s approac