Dehradun, Aug. 21 -- Lord Palmerston, 19th century British prime minister had famously said in a speech at the House of Commons in 1848, "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."
This aphorism has held ground whatever be the nature of the regime, and was best exemplified by the strategic partnership between the Islamic state of Pakistan and Communist China in their ongoing anti-India strategy for over six decades. However, in an interesting turn of events, the applecart may now be tilted with Trump's new found obsession with Field Marshal Asif Munir of Pakistan, juxtaposed with his weaponisation of tariffs against India and China.
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