Dr. Shashi Tharoor

You're comparing India against both Pakistan and China. And then the comparison doesn't look that good for India.

Well, you know, and even in the first Trump administration, it was going fine.

Well, you know, and even in the first Trump administration, it was going fine.

Well, you know, and even in the first Trump administration, it was going fine.

I mean, I would have said that in many ways, the India-US relationship was above partisan politics, that it certainly transcends the political divide within India and appeared to have transcended the political divide in the US because both Bush and Clinton, both Obama and Trump 1.0, all supported a very close relationship. But everything has become very confused in Trump 2.0.

I mean, I would have said that in many ways, the India-US relationship was above partisan politics, that it certainly transcends the political divide within India and appeared to have transcended the political divide in the US because both Bush and Clinton, both Obama and Trump 1.0, all supported a very close relationship. But everything has become very confused in Trump 2.0.

I mean, I would have said that in many ways, the India-US relationship was above partisan politics, that it certainly transcends the political divide within India and appeared to have transcended the political divide in the US because both Bush and Clinton, both Obama and Trump 1.0, all supported a very close relationship. But everything has become very confused in Trump 2.0.

There have been the tariffs, which certainly have hurt India quite significantly.

There have been the tariffs, which certainly have hurt India quite significantly.

There have been the tariffs, which certainly have hurt India quite significantly.

There have been the very, very stringent policies with regard to immigration, including legal immigration, H-1B visas, spouse reunions and so on, which tends disproportionately to hit Indian techies who provide a lot of IT services in the US and who obviously want their families to join them and so on, who are going to find that challenging.

There have been the very, very stringent policies with regard to immigration, including legal immigration, H-1B visas, spouse reunions and so on, which tends disproportionately to hit Indian techies who provide a lot of IT services in the US and who obviously want their families to join them and so on, who are going to find that challenging.

There have been the very, very stringent policies with regard to immigration, including legal immigration, H-1B visas, spouse reunions and so on, which tends disproportionately to hit Indian techies who provide a lot of IT services in the US and who obviously want their families to join them and so on, who are going to find that challenging.

But even more, Mr. Trump's statement yesterday and today has been very troubling because it has de facto handed Pakistan a victory that Pakistan has not earned by choosing unnecessarily to imply an equivalence between India and Pakistan. It was equating the victim and the perpetrator.

But even more, Mr. Trump's statement yesterday and today has been very troubling because it has de facto handed Pakistan a victory that Pakistan has not earned by choosing unnecessarily to imply an equivalence between India and Pakistan. It was equating the victim and the perpetrator.

But even more, Mr. Trump's statement yesterday and today has been very troubling because it has de facto handed Pakistan a victory that Pakistan has not earned by choosing unnecessarily to imply an equivalence between India and Pakistan. It was equating the victim and the perpetrator.

By speaking in terms of getting the two to sit down together and talk to end their thousands of years of conflict, apart from the fact that it hasn't been thousands of years, there is a fact that we are certainly not going to give Pakistan the satisfaction of earning negotiating rights at the point of a gun.

By speaking in terms of getting the two to sit down together and talk to end their thousands of years of conflict, apart from the fact that it hasn't been thousands of years, there is a fact that we are certainly not going to give Pakistan the satisfaction of earning negotiating rights at the point of a gun.

By speaking in terms of getting the two to sit down together and talk to end their thousands of years of conflict, apart from the fact that it hasn't been thousands of years, there is a fact that we are certainly not going to give Pakistan the satisfaction of earning negotiating rights at the point of a gun.

We're not going to talk to the Pakistanis after what they have done to us by killing innocent civilians. And I'm sorry if that's what Mr. Trump wants, he's not going to get it. Thirdly, he has given the Pakistanis the victory of re-internationalizing the Kashmir dispute, which had been off the international agenda for quite some time.