Kashish is the co-author of ‘America and the Indo-Pacific - Trump and Beyond’ (Routledge 2022), which offers an assessment of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy record on India-US relations and the Indo-Pacific region at-large. Kashish is also currently part of the CFR Corporate Leaders Program (2023-25) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), USA. Kashish has served in various research capacities at the Chairman’s Office of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India; the Americas (AMS) Division of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), India; the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India; and Nanyang Technological University (RSIS-NTU), Singapore. The views expressed in this commentary are personal.