Jaishankar and Pompeo concede that trade is a big hurdle, want to give diplomacy a chance.
IN DIPLOMACY, it is the little things that matter. The signal was in the flowers. When US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo arrived in India on June 25, he was received with a big bunch of white lilies by the joint secretary handling Americas in the ministry of external affairs. The message was clear: trade might be a big hurdle, but it was time to give diplomacy a chance.
“Both countries have their interests. And, it is natural to have some conflicts because of that. We will find a common ground using diplomacy,’’ said Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar. Pompeo understood the message. The secretary of state, who had publicly endorsed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ability to do anything, at the Ideas Summit organised by the US-India Business Council, seems to be on board with the truce, at least for now. “I have never found a partner, no matter how close, where we didn’t have places where we have to work through things,’’ said Pompeo, on the differences with India.
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