Cynical realism won’t save India from Donald Trump
India has done brilliantly by balancing America, China and Russia. Can that last?
IT IS HARD to knock India’s political and business elites off-balance, but President Donald Trump is managing. In Delhi’s book-lined studies and the glass-walled corporate towers of Mumbai, grandees are suffering from vertigo. Normally, Indian diplomats and strategists take pride in being unshockable, remaining coolly transactional whatever a wicked world throws at them. But since Mr Trump’s return to office, elites are off-kilter.
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