India’s foreign minister said Wednesday that the United States is likely to become more isolationist, whoever the next president is.
Speaking at an event in Canberra, while Americans were still voting, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the election was unlikely to reverse what he called a long-term trend in American politics.
“Probably since President Barack Obama, the United States has become much more cautious about its international commitments,” he said, pointing to the United States’ reluctance to deploy troops and its withdrawal from Afghanistan under the presidency of Joe Biden.
“President Trump could be more eloquent and more expressive on this,” he said during a roundtable discussion with the foreign ministers of Australia and New Zealand.
But, he added, “it is important to view the United States from a more national perspective than purely in terms of the ideology of the administration of the day.”
“If we really analyze them, I think we need to prepare for a world where the kind of dominance and generosity that the United States enjoyed in its early days may not continue.
That said, Jaishankar said on Tuesday that relations between India and the United States would only intensify in the future.
All three foreign ministers said their countries must step in to create the global environment they want.
“We all have an interest today in creating some kind of consensual agreement of collaboration,” Mr. Jaishankar said. Mr. Jaishankar said.
“There is more protectionism,” said Winston Peters (New Zealand). “The world we were trying to build on is changing, and we will have to respond and change with it.
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