“‘If there is still anybody in India who thought that a nice peaceful relationship with Beijing was a possibility, that’s gone,’ said Elbridge Colby, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense during the Trump administration.
“‘It’s going to put a lot of those traditional hindrances farther and farther behind us. This old trope that the U.S. and India is the partnership of the future and always will be—that’s no longer the case…'”