Nepal, Feb. 3 -- Michael Kugelman is the Director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center, a Washington DC-based think tank mandated by the US Congress to offer counsel and insights on global affairs to American policymakers. In this interview with the Post's Biswas Baral, Kugelman discusses America's South Asian policy under Trump and how it will be different to what it was under President Biden.

These are early days of the second Trump administration. Still, do we have a rough idea of what kind of policies it will pursue in South Asia?

Trump didn't say much on the campaign trail about South Asia, aside from some comments about India and Afghanistan here and there. As a region, it won't be top on the administration's list of s...