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Posted on 08/10/2025 6:03:02 PM PDT by libh8er
Since returning to office in January 2025, President Donald Trump has shown a marked shift in his approach to South Asian geopolitics, displaying what analysts describe as a more favorable stance toward Pakistan while simultaneously straining relations with India. This represents a significant departure from decades of U.S. foreign policy that had increasingly favored New Delhi as a strategic counterweight to China.
The most striking aspect of this policy shift appears to be intertwined with the Trump family’s business ventures. World Liberty Financial (WLF), founded in 2024, is no ordinary fintech startup. The company is 60% owned by Donald Trump’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., along with his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
WLFI lists Trump, his sons Donald Jr. and Eric, and grandson Barron as part of its Web3 leadership team. Trump is listed as “Chief Crypto Advocate.” This personal involvement has raised questions about potential conflicts of interest in foreign policy decisions.
The timing of events has drawn particular scrutiny from observers. The agreement focuses on expanding blockchain technology, stablecoin adoption, and DeFi integration across Pakistan. A press release cited by Dawn newspaper described the deal as “a major step toward positioning Pakistan as a global leader in the digital finance revolution” and enhancing “Pakistan’s” position in the cryptocurrency space.
What has alarmed many analysts is the reported involvement of high-level Pakistani military officials in these business arrangements. The American company at the centre of the controversy is World Liberty Financial, a fintech firm specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrency investments. What raises further eyebrows is that this high-stakes deal was reportedly facilitated directly by General Asim Munir, Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff.
The Kashmir Mediation Claims
Trump’s recent claims about mediating between India and Pakistan have created significant diplomatic tensions. President Trump has repeatedly claimed of having got ‘things settled’ between India and Pakistan, while adding that five or six planes were ‘shot down’ during the recent skirmish between the two neighbors.
In the weeks after India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire in May, officials in New Delhi seethed over Donald Trump’s claims that he brokered an end to a four-day armed conflict. This has created what one Carnegie Endowment analysis describes as a fundamental threat to bilateral relations.
Perhaps the most concrete manifestation of Trump’s shifting priorities has been his aggressive economic stance toward India. Reports suggest that Trump’s 50% India tariff threats upend decades of U.S. policy, representing a dramatic departure from the previous trajectory of U.S.-India economic cooperation.
Meanwhile, Pakistan has received more favorable treatment. At the end of February, the Trump administration decided to exempt $397 million in security assistance to Pakistan from its massive foreign aid cuts. The funds will be allocated to a program that monitors Pakistan’s U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets—to make sure that they are used for appropriate purposes, demonstrating a continued security partnership despite broader aid reductions.
The China Factor
The implications for the broader U.S.-China strategic competition are profound. India has traditionally served as a key partner in Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy aimed at containing Chinese influence. Trump’s apparent pivot toward Pakistan could significantly undermine this approach.
At the end of February, the Trump administration decided to exempt $397 million in security assistance to Pakistan from its massive foreign aid cuts.
Trump is pushing India to submit to China, according to some foreign policy analysts, who argue that by alienating India, the United States is inadvertently strengthening China’s position in South Asia. Pakistan’s deep ties with Beijing through the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) mean that closer U.S.-Pakistan relations could paradoxically benefit Chinese strategic interests.
This represents a fundamental miscalculation in great power competition dynamics. By prioritizing what appear to be personal business interests over strategic geopolitical considerations, the Trump administration may be inadvertently ceding ground to China in one of the world’s most strategically important regions.
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Sounds like baloney to me.
Pahkeestan ain’t got no dough. Ask Babou.
Nice try..Lol.lol.l0l.lol....
I've seen a lot of bizarro whirled assertions, but this one takes the cake.
Yep. Trump likes money, but I would eat my hat if he were stupid enough to actually do this. It is BS.
Pakistan has always been annoyingly strategic. Today, even more so. They hold and encourage China’s back door into and out of the Indian ocean. Getting Pakistan to slow that down would hurt the Chinese a lot.
More Drive-By Media Horsepuckey from Horsepuckey Central.
“There is growing evidence” that President Trump [ FILL-IN-THE-BLANK ].
One of the things that democRATs, DemoKKKrats and RINOs cannot stand is President Trump is fulfilling his promises. Many other politicos will say anything, put their finger in the wind, and the next day say/promise the opposite.
Begun in 2020, its domain was registered through Squarespace Domains II LLC, and is an LLC located in San Ramon, California. (Which shows to be a small condo there.)
It operates a YouTube channel, as well as other social media, alongside its own website. Everyone is a news organization these days.
Source: American Kahani LLC
What in the world is “American Khahani?”
Pock E tan
Kahani is Urdu for story or tale.
Tariffs and financial foreign aid are two separate things . So there’s no issue of favoritism towards Pakistan in that respect.
Barron is POTUS’ son; not grandson.
Where’s the part in the article that addresses India’s refusal to quit buying cut rate Russian oil as Trumpvrakps up pressure on Putin to withdraw from Ukraine?
Those idiots hid Bin Ladin for 12 years, helped the Norks get the bomb, did the Bombay mass murder terror attack, area critical hun in the belt and road program of China, and are probably the most virulent home of terrorists in the world today.
So of course we partner with them just to stick a finger in India’s eye, because India don’t think the Ukraine project is the most important thing in the world.
After what they did to Imran Khan?
If this is true, I would find it distasteful for Barron to be involved with the Pakistanis.
bullshit
Oh, that sounds credible. /sarc
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