Clinton has seen a lot worse to be fazed by this India innuendo. New Delhi, which has dealt with Washington with enough intensity over the last decade, knows that personal connections are useful in a diplomatic sense but rarely decisive in strategic terms.
As Hillary takes over from Rice next month, the US and India are confronted with the gigantic challenge of altering Pakistan’s internal structures. Without that neither the US nor India will be safe from terror.
The writer is a Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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