“In the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist attack, what has caught the attention of strategic experts and left them perplexed is the U.S. President’s repeated obsession with Kashmir — his fixation on resolving a “1000-year-old dispute” and constant references to mediation have raised many eyebrows. This signals one thing clearly: Kashmir is once again emerging as the geopolitical epicenter of South Asia.
As two nuclear powers in South Asia indulge in military skirmishes, political messaging from the U.S. appears not only ambiguous but also contradictory. On one hand, there is an effort to center the Kashmir dispute as an issue of global relevance by hyphenating India and Pakistan together; on the other, the U.S. is leveraging trade tariffs to extract concessions from India — even discouraging companies like Apple from manufacturing goods there.
In the early days of globalization, the U.S. cultivated India as a key ally and an emerging power to contain China. It was widely believed that China wanted India confined within the subcontinent box — a position the U.S. actively resisted. But what has now transpired to reverse that position? Why is the U.S. attempting to relegate India back into the subcontinent box, even as it leads efforts to internationalize the Kashmir issue?”
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