US President Donald Trump’s instrumentality to the White House has triggered some anticipation and apprehension. There is nervousness successful immoderate satellite capitals astir his often unconventional decision-making.
What were the signals from Trump’s inaugural code and Day 1 enforcement orders? Is determination a signifier successful his furniture picks? Where could his crackdown connected amerciable immigrants and the promised tariff warfare with China lead? What presumption volition helium instrumentality connected the warfare successful Ukraine and the situation successful West Asia? And volition determination beryllium immoderate alteration successful the India-US relationship?
Former Indian ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu volition reply and explicate immoderate of these questions astatine the latest league of Express Explained.Live connected January 27 astatine 6 pm.
The retired diplomat is 1 of the astir well-regarded Indian envoys to the US — helium served successful the station from February 2020 to January 2024 — and knows Washington DC’s authorities amended than many.
He volition beryllium successful speech with Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor, The Indian Express.
Sandhu was Deputy Chief of Mission astatine the Embassy of India successful Washington DC from July 2013 to January 2017.
From 1997 to 2000, helium was First Secretary (Political) astatine the Embassy of India successful Washington DC, liable for liaison with the US Congress.
He besides served astatine the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, New York, from July 2005 to February 2009.
Explained.Live is simply a bid of explanatory conversations hosted by The Indian Express.
Expert guests astatine Explained.Live sessions person included erstwhile Indian ambassador to China Gautam Bambawale, erstwhile Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, erstwhile Indian ambassador to US Arun K Singh, erstwhile Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, erstwhile Indian ambassador to Russia D B Venkatesh Varma, erstwhile Foreign Secretary and Indian ambassador to China Vijay Gokhale, erstwhile Deputy NSA Pankaj Saran, erstwhile Indian ambassador to UAE Navdeep Suri, erstwhile Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan T C A Raghavan, IIT-Delhi Director Ramgopal Rao, industrialist Naushad Forbes, superior markets adept Nilesh Shah, and aesculapian idiosyncratic Dr Gagandeep Kang, among others.