US insult to Modi shouldn’t be overlooked

US diplomacy is a cynical mixture of principle and expediency. The world's foremost power needs to project internationally that its policies are based on certain high principles so that its global hegemony is not seen as resting on raw power alone, but has a moral basis. Hence, its crusade for democracy, rule of law, human rights and individual enterprise, on which rests its 'soft power'. Juggling moral posturing and hard-headed pursuit of national interest often lands the US into contradictions from which opportunism is the only way out.

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