US Vice President J D Vance’s four-day visit to India came at a crucial juncture, amid profound changes in Washington’s approach to the world. The optics of the visit, as well as Vance’s speech in Jaipur on Tuesday, must be seen in the context of the gathering apprehensions around the Donald Trump administration’s trade policy, its rethinking of the US’s role in the world, its hardening stance on immigration. Against this backdrop, the images of the Vance family sight-seeing, the play on the Indian connection through Second Lady Usha........

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