Trump’s biggest foreign policy mistake
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/15/trump-india-tariffs-insults-mistake/
The United States is often criticized for orienting itself toward the short term, for being too quick to change course. In fact, on important issues Washington has been remarkably consistent in its foreign policy. Consider the strategic outreach to India that began during the Clinton administration and was expanded in a bipartisan manner over 25 years — until now. President Donald Trump’s sudden, inexplicable hostility toward India reverses policies pursued under five administrations, including his own previous one. If this new attitude holds, it might be the biggest strategic mistake of his presidency so far.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/15/trump-india-tariffs-insults-mistake/
The United States is often criticized for orienting itself toward the short term, for being too quick to change course. In fact, on important issues Washington has been remarkably consistent in its foreign policy. Consider the strategic outreach to India that began during the Clinton administration and was expanded in a bipartisan manner over 25 years — until now. President Donald Trump’s sudden, inexplicable hostility toward India reverses policies pursued under five administrations, including his own previous one. If this new attitude holds, it might be the biggest strategic mistake of his presidency so far.
Donald Trump’s capricious dealmaking destabilizes the world
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/08/14/how-to-win-at-foreign-policy
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/08/14/how-to-win-at-foreign-policy
The Shocking Rift Between India and the United States
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/india/shocking-rift-between-india-and-united-states
Can Progress in the Partnership Survive Trump?
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/india/shocking-rift-between-india-and-united-states
Can Progress in the Partnership Survive Trump?
Is Trump forcing a marriage of convenience between India and China? Like most relationships, it’s complicated.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/india/india-china-trump-trade-policies-intl-hnk
Their relationship is defined by a bloody border dispute, a vast power imbalance and a fierce contest for influence across Asia. Yet, President Donald Trump’s latest trade war may be achieving the unthinkable: pushing India and China into a wary but tactical embrace.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/india/india-china-trump-trade-policies-intl-hnk
Their relationship is defined by a bloody border dispute, a vast power imbalance and a fierce contest for influence across Asia. Yet, President Donald Trump’s latest trade war may be achieving the unthinkable: pushing India and China into a wary but tactical embrace.
Trump is the gift that keeps giving to China
https://www.ft.com/content/d10ea991-627d-4c79-8d80-04af180c69dc
Ed Luce:
Aiding the emergence of a strong and counterbalancing India has been America’s most important China play in the last quarter of a century. But Trump keeps going the extra mile to cast doubt on whether that still holds. Having claimed (falsely according to India) that he stopped India and Pakistan from going to war in May, Trump is going out of his way to woo Pakistan. On the same day in June that Trump invited Modi to Washington, he had a private lunch with Asim Munir, Pakistan’s military chief. American presidents do not share one-to-one meals with heads of foreign armies. Yet for Pakistan he made an exception. Modi politely declined Trump’s invitation. Now Trump is taunting India that it has a “dead economy” and might one day have to import its oil from Pakistan. This is how you lose friends and squander influence.
https://www.ft.com/content/d10ea991-627d-4c79-8d80-04af180c69dc
Ed Luce:
Aiding the emergence of a strong and counterbalancing India has been America’s most important China play in the last quarter of a century. But Trump keeps going the extra mile to cast doubt on whether that still holds. Having claimed (falsely according to India) that he stopped India and Pakistan from going to war in May, Trump is going out of his way to woo Pakistan. On the same day in June that Trump invited Modi to Washington, he had a private lunch with Asim Munir, Pakistan’s military chief. American presidents do not share one-to-one meals with heads of foreign armies. Yet for Pakistan he made an exception. Modi politely declined Trump’s invitation. Now Trump is taunting India that it has a “dead economy” and might one day have to import its oil from Pakistan. This is how you lose friends and squander influence.
India’s Pragmatic Pivot Toward China
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/india-pivot-china-trump-geopolitics-uncertainty/
By improving business ties with Beijing, New Delhi is advancing its economic interests amid uncertainty from Washington.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/india-pivot-china-trump-geopolitics-uncertainty/
By improving business ties with Beijing, New Delhi is advancing its economic interests amid uncertainty from Washington.
Can the U.S.-India Relationship Be Saved?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-and-india-can-this-relationship-be-saved-asia-trump-diplomacy-5615ee69
Trump and Modi can meet in the middle to repair their countries’ mutually beneficial partnership.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-and-india-can-this-relationship-be-saved-asia-trump-diplomacy-5615ee69
Trump and Modi can meet in the middle to repair their countries’ mutually beneficial partnership.
On GPS: The end of the US-India friendship?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/10/world/video/gps-0810-india-trump-tariffs
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/10/world/video/gps-0810-india-trump-tariffs
Democracies snubbed, dictators courted: Inside Trump’s embrace of Pakistan by Michael Rubin
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/democracies-snubbed-dictators-courted-inside-trumps-embrace-of-pakistan
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/democracies-snubbed-dictators-courted-inside-trumps-embrace-of-pakistan
Trump’s Missed Opportunities Are Piling Up
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/29/trumps-missed-opportunities-are-piling-up/
The Trump administration had an unprecedented chance to change the United States for the better.
What Has Being a ‘True Friend’ to Trump Gotten Modi? Not Much, Indians Say.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/world/asia/modi-trump-india-tariffs.html
India’s prime minister has made a big effort to build closer ties using his rapport with the U.S. president, but critics say he is getting little in return.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/29/trumps-missed-opportunities-are-piling-up/
The Trump administration had an unprecedented chance to change the United States for the better.
What Has Being a ‘True Friend’ to Trump Gotten Modi? Not Much, Indians Say.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/world/asia/modi-trump-india-tariffs.html
India’s prime minister has made a big effort to build closer ties using his rapport with the U.S. president, but critics say he is getting little in return.
Why Brazil Might End Up with Higher Tariffs Than Any Other Nation
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/brazil-trump-tariffs-lula/
The rift between the Western Hemisphere’s two largest democracies is the strongest evidence yet that Trump is in the business of autocracy promotion.
No One Is Defying Trump Like Brazil’s President
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/americas/brazil-president-lula-trump-tariffs.html
Faced with threats of 50 percent tariffs and demands to end a criminal case, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he wouldn’t take orders from President Trump.
Brazil’s Brave Stand Against Trump
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/brazil-president-lula-standing-up-to-trump-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2025-07
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/americas/brazil-president-lula-trump-tariffs.html
Faced with threats of 50 percent tariffs and demands to end a criminal case, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he wouldn’t take orders from President Trump.
Brazil’s Brave Stand Against Trump
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/brazil-president-lula-standing-up-to-trump-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2025-07