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"The suggestion that India should have emulated Pakistan’s mediating posture fundamentally misunderstands both countries’ situations. Pakistan mediated because it had no room to do anything else — squeezed by Saudi obligations, Emirati loans, Afghan insecurity, rising oil costs, and Chinese strategic direction, it performed diplomacy as a form of managed helplessness. India, unencumbered by those dependencies, was free to pursue its actual national interest. That is not a mark against New Delhi. That is precisely the point." -- A cracker of a piece by @HindolSengupta for @firstpost
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