New Delhi: A 33-page National Security Strategy document signed by Donald Trump repeats the claim that the US president brokered peace between India and Pakistan. It also says that the US continues to improve its relations with India to encourage it to contribute to Indo-Pacific security and invokes the Quad in a rare departure from the US's isolationist impulses.

The document, which has been called "a rare formal explanation of Trump’s foreign policy worldview by his administration," features one of Trump's most repeated claims – one that puts India at significant unease – that he brokered peace between India and Pakistan, when tensions rose as India retaliated to the Pahalgam terror attack with Operation Sindoor earlier this year.

Indian maintains that no third party had a role to play in the decision to affect a ceasefire. But this has not stopped Trump from making this claim over 50 times now.

It says:

"President Trump has cemented his legacy as The President of Peace. In addition to the remarkable success achieved during his first term with the historic Abraham Accords, President Trump has leveraged his dealmaking ability to secure unprecedented peace in eight conflicts throughout the world over the course of just eight months of his second term. He negotiated peace between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the DRC and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and ended the war in Gaza with all living hostages returned to their families."

The document also says that the US continues to work through the Quad mechanism involving Australia, Japan, and India to help foster Indo-Pacific security.

"We continue to improve commercial (and other) relations with India to encourage New Delhi to contribute to Indo-Pacific security, including through continued quadrilateral cooperation with Australia, Japan, and the United States (“the Quad”). Moreover, we will also work to align the actions of our allies and partners with our joint interest in preventing domination by any single competitor nation."

The Quad's importance had risen with China's rise, but Trump has infamously thrown caution to the winds of all such partnerships.

Later, speaking of the potential for "any competitor to control the South China Sea," the document says that such a watch with require not just further investment in the US's military, especially naval, capabilities, "but also strong cooperation with every nation that stands to suffer, from India to Japan and beyond, if this problem is not addressed."

The document also invokes India among "European and Asian allies and partners" – in fact, it is the only country it names – with whom the US wishes to "cement and improve...joint positions in the Western Hemisphere and, with regard to critical minerals, in Africa."

It says, "We should form coalitions that use our comparative advantages in finance and technology to build export markets with cooperating countries."

It then issues a harsh missive: "America’s economic partners should no longer expect to earn income from the United States through overcapacity and structural imbalances but instead pursue growth through managed cooperation tied to strategic alignment and by receiving long-term U.S. investment."

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