Trump’s Great Game

In an article for the Hudson Institute, Michael Pillsbury, a China expert and former US defence official who has served as advisor to Donald Trump, noted that one of Beijing’s biggest concerns about the new US President was whether he “supports India’s claims to Arunachal Pradesh”. He wrote that the US “has not taken a position” on the issue, although since 1962 America has actually recognised the McMahon Line as the border—and so Arunachal as India’s. Is Trump considering using Arunachal as a bargaining chip with the Chinese?