It’s a good thing that the US economy is on an uptick these days, for Washington, DC is facing a depletion of stock in the friends department. After upsetting partners in east and south east Asia by obeying China’s December 2013 diktat on the no-fly zone over the Senkaku Islands, the US is now losing friends in South Asia too. India first: On January 9, the New York attorney’s office indicted Ms Devyani Khobragade, Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, of alleged visa fraud.
How to lose friends and alienate nations
The Pioneer published Gateway House's Neelam Deo and Manjeet Kripalani's article on the recent moves by the U.S. which is alienating countries in South Asia