Trump’s hostility to China could put India in a spot
Getting used to Donald Trump in the White House has not been easy for any government. Aside from his ‘unpresidential’ rants on Twitter and elsewhere, his refusal to answer inconvenient questions at press conferences and his pugnaciously adversarial relationships with anyone he doesn’t care for (which seems to be a large portion of the global population), there have been his dramatic decisions in his first days in office: the ‘Muslim Ban’, denying entry to the US for people from seven largely Muslim countries; the suspension of refugee admissions, notably from war-torn Syria; and the draft executive order on the H-1B visa policy, which has sent Indian IT stocks plummeting. Foreign countries have barely absorbed one shock when the next one comes out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are all reeling.
The first realisation is that the initial reassurances we were all given by wise Americans—that we should take Trump seriously, but not literally—are all hokum. It seems we must take Trump both seriously and literally, for he appears determined to fulfil every one of the campaign promises that astonished foreigners derided him for. I had laughed at the prospect of America actually building a wall along the Mexican border; I am laughing no more.
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A golden girl
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India is not a controlling big brother
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Comrade with no foes
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Pinning down saffron
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