In all fairness, Biden was a rubber stamp president. Trump's 180 deg turnaround on China and India was something nobody could've anticipated.
In his first term, he was the guy who authorized the sale of armed MQ-9Bs to India, something even Obama had refused to do.
Since then, Trump has clearly realized that decoupling from China isn't going to be easy (rare earths for example) and penalizing India on trade and immigration helps his approval ratings.
Plus US strategic policy is being re-written by first-timers like DefSec Pete Hegseth who seems focused on securing the Western hemisphere/US homeland while using regime change + mercenary states/rent boys like Pak to control the rest.
In his first term, he was the guy who authorized the sale of armed MQ-9Bs to India, something even Obama had refused to do.
Since then, Trump has clearly realized that decoupling from China isn't going to be easy (rare earths for example) and penalizing India on trade and immigration helps his approval ratings.
Plus US strategic policy is being re-written by first-timers like DefSec Pete Hegseth who seems focused on securing the Western hemisphere/US homeland while using regime change + mercenary states/rent boys like Pak to control the rest.