Politician Hillary Clinton did the best she could do

State Hillary Clinton did the best she could do in the given circumstances, on her five days visit to India.
She came to connect and she did it, in spite of the disagreements between the two countries on core issues of climate change, non-proliferation and terrorism. She tried to build on the relationship strengthened by former president George Bush says prominent international strategic affairs analyst K Subrahamanyam.

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She is different from (former US secretary of state) Condoleezza Rice. She came and had people to people diplomacy. Which Secretary of State of America has met so many Indians in one visit? Will she do such things in China? Rice and her style are different. Rice would meet top people and fly away. Hillary is different."

Hillary Clinton with Bill Clinton

India was sulking when she went to China ignoring India. But, "China and US' relationship is cosy for a short period. Due to economic downturn they are co-operating. But, rivalry is in-built in their bilateral relations. India and US are partners. Clinton has said that US wants India to shape 21st century.

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Her visit was choreographed in predictable diplomatic manners. Even the customary picture of American woman with Indian village beauties was arranged in the metropolitan city of Mumbai

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On the table, Clinton, friend of India, brought education, climate change, agriculture, nuclear non-proliferation agreement to facilitate defence trade, terrorism, Iran, Afpak policy and Kashmir as well. The visit was too important for bilateral relations, and the US embassy tried to drum it up by organising her meetings with students, social workers, educators and a series of TV interviews, where she kept nodding her head with broad smile whenever she was quizzed on the US stance on terrorism unleashed from the territory of Pakistan into India.

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Hillary's forthcoming book on diplomacy should have a working title: 'How to make friends in India and influence people in Pakistan.' All through her India trip she dropped little alibis for Pakistan, and no one either noticed or cared, even when she explained away Islamabad's duplicity in the case against banned Jamaat-ud-Dawaah chief Hafeez Saeed. The legal process tends to be time-consuming everywhere. We all know that, don't we?