One year after India and Pakistan nearly escalated to full-scale war, New Delhi is watching Washington with open unease. Bloomberg Politics reports that Indian officials have grown increasingly alarmed by the warm relationship between Islamabad and President Trump — a dynamic that complicates the US-India partnership that successive administrations worked to build.
The RSS summary doesn't surface a named Indian official on record, but the concern itself is the news: a nuclear-armed neighbor's cozy posture with the American president shifts the regional calculus in ways New Delhi cannot easily hedge against.
Read the play: Trump's transactional diplomacy doesn't distinguish between democratic allies and authoritarian partners. India gets bracketed with everyone else. That's not just a diplomatic irritant — it's leverage erosion at exactly the moment China is watching both capitals for signs of fracture.