Trump meet, India needs to reposition itself in a changed terrain

Synopsis India can no longer rely on its previous geopolitical strength. The long-held beliefs about US-China interactions have crumbled, requiring a strategic overhaul. India must now reconsider its relationship with the United States in light of China’s strategic economic maneuvers in its trade agreements. The geopolitical sweet spot India found itself in over the last decade-and-a-half has ended. Old equations predicated on an adversarial US-China relationship no longer stand. Neither do those assumptions. This makes it imperative for India to reposition on a calculus of low trust levels with the US, especially the Trump White House. This is not because…