{"id":6700,"date":"2019-08-10T20:05:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/10\/modi-hardline-hindu-coup-kashmir-threatens-india-democracy"},"modified":"2019-08-10T20:05:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T11:05:15","slug":"why-modis-kashmir-coup-threatens-indias-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6700","title":{"rendered":"Why Modi\u2019s Kashmir coup threatens India\u2019s democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clumsy intervention by Trump in dispute over Kashmir may have prompted Indian PM to act<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tempting, though illogical, to blame Donald Trump for all the world\u2019s ills. Yet was it America\u2019s self-aggrandising president who triggered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/india-revoke-disputed-kashmir-special-status\" title=\"\">last week\u2019s sudden crisis between India and Pakistan <\/a>over Kashmir? When Trump took office in 2017, his ignorance of international affairs was seen as potentially dangerous. Those fears now look well-founded. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/09\/kashmiris-will-erupt-fear-grips-region-as-indian-crackdown-bites\" title=\"\">Kashmir may provide conclusive, catastrophic proof<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> The trouble started on 22 July when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/22\/trump-imran-khan-pakistan-afghanistan-war\" title=\"\">Trump hosted Imran Khan, Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, in the Oval office<\/a>. Despite previously accusing Pakistan of supporting terrorism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/02\/us-military-confirms-300m-cut-in-aid-to-pakistan\" title=\"\">slashing US aid<\/a>, Trump was all smiles. Why? Because he needed Khan\u2019s help in cutting a peace deal with the Taliban. Trump yearns to tell America\u2019s voters next year that he ended the 18-year Afghan war and brought the troops home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/10\/modi-hardline-hindu-coup-kashmir-threatens-india-democracy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clumsy intervention by Trump in dispute over Kashmir may have prompted Indian PM to actIt\u2019s tempting, though illogical, to blame Donald Trump for all the world\u2019s ills. Yet was it America\u2019s self-aggrandising president who triggered last week\u2019s sudden cr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,359,62,432,433,60,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-imran-khan","category-india","category-kashmir","category-narendra-modi","category-pakistan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6703,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions\/6703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}