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I'm David Rothkoff, your host and we are very fortunate to be joined for this

week's episode by Ambassador Timothy Romer, former U.S. Ambassador to India,

former Congressman from Indiana, former member of the 9-11 Commission,

one of the smartest, most thoughtful guys I know in Washington which

admittedly is not setting the bar terribly high but I'm very glad to have you here.

Thank you for that backhanded compliment David., no, it's a four-handed compliment.

I think you're terrific as you know.

And I thought, you know, one of the things we like to do is cover the news that sometimes slips between the cracks.

I just was reading actually today

that mainstream news, the big outlets,

devote precisely 7.5% of their coverage to the rest of the world.

And so we're trying to fill the gap a little bit.

One of the areas where I think that's especially important is in one of our most important

strategic great power relationships and that's one you know well that's with India.

And the reason I think it's especially important right now is quite apart from

the tension between India and Pakistan to nuclear powers that we've had to

endure the past couple of weeks. We've also seen in recent days an abrupt turn in the US-India trade relationship where it looks

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