Will Nikki Haley’s comments pressurize India to reduce its ‘muscular diplomacy?’

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Will Nikki Haley’s comments pressurize India to reduce its ‘muscular diplomacy?’
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M. K. Bhadrakumar|

When President-elect Donald Trump picked Ambassador Nikki Haley as the US ambassador to the United Nations, eyebrows were raised that she lacked ‘diplomatic experience’. But Haley has been a successful politician and diplomacy and politics are two sides of the same coin.

A successful career in diplomacy almost always requires one to have the DNA of a politician – no strong convictions, capacity to bend like soccer star Beckham, killer instinct and Teflon smoothness to dissimulate. Henry Kissinger epitomizes a successful diplomat. If on the other hand, John Bolton or Zbigniew Brzezinski turned out to be spectacular failures, it can only be attributed to their stubborn beliefs.

Nikki Haley is no simpleton
To be sure, Nikki Haley has the making of a successful diplomat. Watch the ABC’s ‘This Week’ with Haley holding forth on the delicate topic of Trump and Russia. If one ever thought her acerbic remarks about Russia’s interference in American politics betrayed her shallowness, revise that opinion. Haley was as slippery as an eel. Trump himself thinks all this talk of Russian interference is nonsense, but Haley maintains that she still wants to believe in the allegation (provided, she adds the caveat, it can be someday substantiated with facts).

Haley then discloses that Trump never pulled her up for her remarks on Russia. How does it all add up? Simply put, Trump has placed her at the far right of the spectrum of opinion on Russia where she becomes a strategic asset, since there is no scope whatsoever for Senator John McCain or any witch-hunting Democrat to outflank her strident rhetoric.

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Will Nikki Haley’s comments pressurize India to reduce its ‘muscular diplomacy?’

 

[illusion8]

@ badrakumar

Stopped reading when I saw that name.

 

[Turingsage]

No. Simplz.

 

[Tshering22]

Will Nikki Haley’s comments pressurize India to reduce its ‘muscular diplomacy?’

What pressure is he talking about?

She just issued a statement saying that US was willing to mediate for an imaginary 'issue' which we simply don't see.

As for pressure - Yeah, right. Good luck attempting to pressure someone like PM Modi.

 

[footmarks]

Be very sure, IF (and a BIG IF) US mediates, it would be to negotiate only one thing - how quickly pakistan would give back the occupied Kaashmir to India.

Pakistan need to be realistic in their hopes with US mediation.

 

[SS Totenkopf]

US has actually already clarified that it will not mediate and returned back to it's previous stance:

The strong response from New Delhi forced the State Department to revert to its traditional position that Pakistan and India needed to talk directly to each other.

httpswww,dawn,com/news/1325394/pakistan-ready-for-talks-with-india-on-terrorism-fo

India, normally super-sensitive to any talk of third party intervention, seemed not too worried, opting to continue believing in an earlier assurance from the Trump administration that the president “was not interested”.

The Trump administration has let India know, according to officials in New Delhi who spoke on condition of anonymity, that the president has no intention of insinuating himself or the US into the conflict as mediator or peacekeeper.

United States on Tuesday seemed to have returned to its previous stance of non-interference as it asked India and Pakistan to resolve the issue through "direct dialogue" indicating continuity in its stated position, contrary to the shift suggested by its ambassador to UN, Nikki Haley.
The US was not planning to seek a change either, as the state department spokesperson said, despite the remarks of the country’s new ambassador to the UN who has not been afraid to take policy positions contrary to that of the president.
Was she taking a contrary position on India as well, then?
The Trump administration has let India know the president had no intention of involving himself or the US into the conflict as a mediator or a peace-maker, according to officials in New Delhi who spoke on condition of anonymity.
New Delhi first raised the issue with the new administration in January after Trump, then president-elect, was seen to be signalling a desire to mediate in a call with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
“I am ready and willing to play any role that you want me to play to address and find solutions to the outstanding problems,” Trump had said, according to a transcript released by Pakistan. “It will be an honor and I will personally do it.”
New Delhi, which has been engaging the new administration in a series of meetings, was alarmed and checked. “We were told by those close to the administration the president was not interested,” said an official.
And that remains the situation, as reiterated by the US on Tuesday. Read full sto

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[R Wing]

Who cares?

Let India posture muscularly. It's amusing.