The destruction of the liberal international order does not presage multipolarity but rather consolidates the US-China bipolarity that will subsist amid the increasing entropy in global politics
Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency is widely perceived as exemplifying virulent American carnage. Often without discipline but with ruthlessness all the same, Trump is viewed as bludgeoning the idea of America both at home and abroad. Despite New Delhi’s feigned optimism in these circumstances, US-Indian relations have been disturbed as well. For a quarter century now, bilateral ties between Washington and New Delhi have been steadily improving, as successive US administrations — including Trump’s during his first term — wooed India because of the competition with China.