Joe Biden’s advisor on foreign affairs Antony Blinken said that the Biden administration could potentially address the Kashmir issue with India, in addition to raising concerns about the CAA-NRC issue. In a dialogue on Thursday with the Hudson Institute, Washington, he also criticized Trump’s administration for its backfire in strategy in the Iran issue. The Biden administration, he said, would avoid “schizophrenic see-saw” of the Trump administration on Iran, which has brought the world to the brink of conflict.
In the conversation, the moderator had raised questions about India’s decisions with regard to the Kashmir issue and asked if the Biden administration will raise these concerns with India.
“We obviously have challenges now and real concerns, for example, about some of the actions the Indian government has taken, particularly in cracking down on freedom of movement and freedom of speech in Kashmir, and about some of the laws on citizenship,” said Blinken while responding to the moderator. He added that the election of Biden as President has now become a ‘likelihood’ more than a ‘possibility’.
Blinken is the major brain behind the drafting the foreign policy at Biden’s camp. It is to be noted that he is a former deputy national security adviser and deputy secretary of state.
(Source: Dawn)