I've been a pretty trenchant critic of the administration's approach to India. But people need to stop arguing that India was "pushed" to attend the SCO in Tianjin or is now "in the Chinese camp." The fact is, @narendramodi hasn't been a regular at every summit but India has been attending SCO and BRICS meetings at various levels, in various forms, and in various locales for years. History did not just start. And it is an American conceit that everything India does and is now doing is merely "derivative" of American policy. There are things that have resulted from Trump's policies and, as I warned in this piece at the very outset of this Trump-induced crackup, the United States is going to reap the harvest of the administration's decision to tank 25 years of bipartisan progress with India, which is precisely why there is a lot of signaling to Washington going on from New Delhi's choices just now. But the notion that Indian foreign policy is simply reactive to the United States, and nothing more, is a silly American conceit. (And that's not just true of India, either.) https://t.co/wpNBGxr3i6