Talk:Foreign policy of the Richard Nixon administration

This is a new article, with most of the material new and not copied from Presidency of Richard Nixon.. Suggestions welcome. Meanwhile I will be making a lot of new additions and edits in February 2019. Rjensen (talk) 21:53, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Section for Indo-US relations

@TheTimesAreAChanging: Could you explain why you have removed my addition of Indo_US relations? All material was well cited and relevant. The section under Bangladesh is not sufficient to cover the entirety of India-US relations, especially since the actions during Nixon's presidency heavily influenced Indo-US relations for decades.—Preceding unsigned comment added by User:CapnJackSp at 07:32, 30 January 2022‎. (BTW, if you don't sign then you will not ping, either.)TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 09:27, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Thanks, forgot to signCaptain Jack Sparrow (talk) 10:29, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

To be honest, CapnJackSp, I removed your edit because it was a sloppy, unattributed copy/paste that included an irrelevant photo of Jimmy Carter and Morarji Desai (presumably copied by mistake?) and elevated India to the top foreign policy issue faced by the Nixon administration (above even the Vietnam War) while ignoring the existing section devoted to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, where any non-duplicative content should have been merged.

With the exception of the sentence on India's first nuclear test, the overlap between your proposed addition and the long-standing text is striking:

• Your edit: "Relations hit an all-time low under the Nixon administration in the early 1970s."; "Nixon shifted away from the neutral stance which his predecessors had taken towards India-Pakistan hostilities."; "He considered Pakistan as a very important ally to counter Soviet influence in the Indian subcontinent and establish ties with China, with whom Pakistan was very close."; "During the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War, the US openly supported Pakistan and deployed its aircraft carrier USS Enterprise towards the Bay of Bengal, which was seen as a show of force by the US in support of the West Pakistani forces."
• Long-standing text: "India resented the American role for decades."; "Nixon and Kissinger saw India as a threat to U.S. interests, yet they were constrained by their belief that the American public would not accept hostilities against a fellow democracy."; "Pakistan was needed to facilitate secret talks underway with China that led to a revolutionary rapprochement turning China from enemy to friend."; "Nixon sent a carrier group to the Bay of Bengal to weigh in on Pakistan's side but without any combat action."

Nixon's musings on the relative attractiveness of Indian women do not merit much weight here, either—this is a big topic.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 09:27, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Then your edit summary should have reflected that, no? Instead of quoting irrelevant details. I agree that I erred here by posting duplicate information (I had not seen the pre-existing section). I might add to the old section later.Captain Jack Sparrow (talk) 10:26, 30 January 2022 (UTC)