The trump administration and the Kashmir issue
- World Affairs
- 26(3), Jul-Sep, 2022: p.88-99
Successive US administrations have been mostly ambivalent, when not inimical to India in the context of the Indo-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir. The Trump administration at the outset, however took a markedly pro- Indian stand which it mitigated later when it conducted negotiations with the Afghan Taliban with help from Pakistan. When India amended Article 370, the Trump Administration gave qualified support to New Delhi while the Democratic party took a pro-Pakistani position and harshly criticised the Modi government. – Reproduced