Advertisement Toward the end of last week, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar delivered two characteristically frank and direct speeches that taken together, provide us with significant additional understanding of how India sees its relations with great powers evolving – and the assumptions driving them. On January 27, virtually delivering a keynote address at an annual conference organized by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel, Jaishankar dwelt at length on the United States and the direction the new occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue are likely to take when it comes to both foreign and domestic policy. “Because globalization has impacted its economy so deeply, this is equally a foreign policy issue. Therefore, we have already heard President Biden stressing the necessity of formulating policies addressing the well-being of the American middle class” Jaishankar said, adding, “Similarly, his closest advisors have spoken of a new U.S. industrial strategy to address the distortions of the current trading system.”