- Advertisement -By Nayan SethWashington– Raymond Vickery, a former US Assistant Secretary of Commerce for trade development, has lauded India’s measured approach to the recent tensions with the United States. We have actually been having conversations with the Indians from day one of the administration on the trade side of the ledger. The former senior commerce department official highlighted India-US engagement in multiple fields such as technology, military, health and energy, but warned that Trump’s “transactional approach” could harm cooperation in other fields. “If this transactional approach continues, then it’s going to harm the engagement between the US and India across the board,” he said. “It plays to India’s advantage, in the sense that both India and China are in the same boat.