Christine Fair had been responding to a question about whether Washington's latest moves indicated a move past its 25-year-old policy of India's relevance as a counterbalance to China in Asia

Christine Fair had been responding to a question about whether Washington's latest moves indicated a move past its 25-year-old policy of India's relevance as a counterbalance to China in Asia

Christine Fair had been responding to a question about whether Washington's latest moves indicated a move past its 25-year-old policy of India's relevance as a counterbalance to China in Asia

US political scientist Carol Christine Fair used a Hindi swear word when speaking of President Donald Trump in an interview that has gone viral recently.

In her conversation with Pakistan-origin British journalist Moeed Pirzada, she explained how the US was only six months into Trump's second presidential term, and had "four years of this ... of this c**tiya," she said.

She had been responding to a question from Pirzada about whether Washington's latest moves indicated a move past its 25-year-old policy of India's relevance as a counterbalance to China in Asia.

The two of them, who had been solemn till this point in the conversation, suddenly chuckled at Fair's use of profanity.

At other points during the interview, she even expressed doubt at the handling  of various matters by the Trump administration.

“I can't speak for the patina of officials in the Trump administration ... Unfortunately, many of the Trump officials are not terribly expert in their field. So it's very tempting to just take down as the singular force that matters. But one does have to remember that we have this complicated bureaucracy and this bureaucracy has been really working toward this relationship for these 25 years.”

(This is a developing story.)

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