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The perils of getting too personal in foreign policy
Personality can open doors, but it cannot rewrite geopolitics.
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb 13.
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When US President Donald Trump picked up the phone on June 17 to speak with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, he expected the conversation to showcase his command of personal diplomacy. Instead, it unravelled into a rupture.
Mr Trump boasted of having “solved” the conflict between India and Pakistan – and suggested that Pakistan was going to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr Modi bristled.
