Contentious exchanges like the one between the presidents of the United States and Ukraine on February 28 are quite common in bilateral meetings between leaders and their delegations down the hierarchy. The difference that stood out at the Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky was that the spat occurred in public.
It has been an open secret in Washington that, in 2022 itselfâafter the war started in Ukraineâpresident Joe Biden clashed with Zelensky. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama both had ugly dust-ups with successive Israeli prime ministers. However, whenever the two sides appeared in front of television cameras, everything was sweet as honey. That is what public diplomacy is meant for.
India has had its share of such situations. Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee found himself in potentially the same situation as Zelensky after he ordered nuclear tests in 1998. Manmohan Singh, too, faced intense pressure from his interlocutors abroad for his uncompromising positions and unwillingness to dilute Indiaâs nuclear deal with the US to suit the global architecture on non-proliferation.
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