New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- From the very day of his second appointment as US President, Donald Trump has unleashed a blitzkrieg of executive orders which have turned many US policies on their head, sacked large numbers of government staff and disrupted governance systems. These disruptions are severely impacting the US, but are also reverberating throughout the world. It is an unrestrained and unprecedented display of raw power by the most powerful man in the world.

How are these disruptions likely to affect India? Three disruptive moves in particular need to be taken into consideration in this regard-on immigration, trade and tariff policy, and foreign policy.

Attacking immigration was Trump's first major move. He had harped on this issue i...