Dr Antonina Luszczykiewicz, a specialist in political and cultural history of China and India, is affiliated with the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She currently serves as Taiwan fellow of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Republic of China.
Not only was the signing of the US-India defence pact important, the visit by America’s top two national security officials came just a week before the presidential election, signalling a longer-term shift in US policy.