Winning friends and influencing people in the Indo-Pacific

Winning friends and influencing people in the Indo-Pacific
With the absence of President Joe Biden, Narendra Modi took centre-stage. (Image: Twitter)
Dileepa Fonseka
As a country which has given the world some of its biggest consumer brands, it is fitting the US is also the birthplace of one of the great tomes about sales: Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People.One of Carnegie’s key precepts is you win friends by being genuinely interested in people, and in a diplomatic sense, the US is certainly trying at this game.There’s a line from The Diplomat (the foreign policy publication, not the Netflix series) via contributor Peter Birgbauer about the US “pivot” to A...

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