- ADVERTISEMENT -President Donald Trump is unpredictable and recently managed to surprise himself for pulling off the historic India-EU trade deal, albeit unintentionally. Indeed, it would be fair to say that the India-EU negotiations received an accelerated push to forge new partnerships so as to counter the Oval Office’s adversarial and combative approach to global relations. The pro-US lobby would, understandably, argue that any kind of strategic distancing from Washington would hurt India’s interests. This kind of middle path approach allows India the strategic flexibility and depth that it needs. This is the time for a recasting of India’s foreign and security policy and the creation of an architecture that takes cognizance of new realities and the huge dislocation in global relations that Trump and his administration has ushered.