US-India Relations in the Time of Trump

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Paul Staniland joins the Council for a roundtable discussion on what shifting US-India relations mean for China and the region.
US Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jaipur, India on April 22, 2025.
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Speakers
Paul Staniland
Karl Friedhoff
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About This Event

The relationship between the United States and India has never been an easy one, but over the past two decades, India has become better integrated into the US-led effort to compete with China and check its growing influence. US President Donald Trump’s levying of tariffs on India over their purchase of Russian oil has sparked a deep re-think in India about its relations with the US, China, and how to best pursue its interests. How India now sees its next steps will have important and lasting implications for the future of the region and the US, as Paul Staniland and Karl Friedhoff explore in this roundtable discussion.

This event is invite-only and will take place at the Council's Conference Center. Invites are non-transferable. If you have any questions, please reach out to info@globalaffairs.org. 

About the Speakers
Paul Staniland
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Asia Studies
Headshot of Paul Staniland.
Paul Staniland is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and a nonresident scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research focuses on political violence and international security, with a regional emphasis on South and Southeast Asia. He joined the Council in 2025 as a nonresident senior fellow on Asia studies.
Headshot of Paul Staniland.
Karl Friedhoff
Marshall M. Bouton Fellow for Asia Studies
Council expert Karl Friedhoff
Karl Friedhoff was a Korea Foundation-Mansfield Foundation US-Korea Nexus Scholar and a member of the Mansfield Foundation’s Trilateral Working Group prior to joining the Council. Previously, he was a program officer in the Public Opinion Studies Program at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies based in Seoul, South Korea.
Council expert Karl Friedhoff
Issues US Foreign Policy
Regions South Asia
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