India, Dec. 6 -- The onus for winning back goodwill with New Delhi amid a downturn in India-US relations is on Washington, while the loss of trust between India and the US is a win for Europe, two leading geopolitical experts said at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Saturday.

Trade is the "core lens" through which the US administration sees its diplomatic relations, and President Donald Trump has always expressed concerns about Indian tariffs, said Michael Kugelman, senior fellow for South Asia at the Atlantic Council. "If we look at how the US-India relationship reached a point of crisis, we have to start at the fact that the Trump administration has singled out India as a core offender when it comes to countries that have econo...