Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran has said that U.S. President Donald Trump's shifting geopolitical priorities signal a clear retreat from the Indo-Pacific focus that once underpinned Washington's engagement with India.

"There is a changed geopolitical context and the sooner we understand that, the better we would be able to cope with the changed circumstances," Saran said in an interview with The Wire. "In the present geopolitical situation, it is Russia, which appears to be a more reliable and predictable partner than the United States of America is." Advertisement

Saran was responding to a question on Trump's repeated claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to cut back on Russian oil. He said it would have been politically unwise for Modi to make such a commitment to

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