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India needs to leverage Trump’s China antipathy

13 Nov 2024

The electoral victory of Donald Trump, and his comeback as the United States (US) president, has led to speculation as to the contours of his administration’s policies with respect to the Indo-Pacific region. US presidents are said to get more ambitious in their second term, and if the past is prologue, Trump 2.0 may have a profound impact on the US’s China policy. This is because, in his first term, Trump changed Washington’s fundamental engagement with Beijing. Since the normalisation of relations between the two nations in the late 1970s, cooperation in economic, scientific and cultural spheres flourished. Trump mooted de-coupling, meaning the gradual severing of the intertwining between the two.
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Authors

Harsh V. Pant, Kalpit A Mankikar

Pages
7
Published in
India

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