Chinese Twist In the Tellis Tale
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Tellis was an affable and well-connected figure with friends in policy and media circles and some of the shock might be genuine. But his actions cannot be explained away as mere indiscretions
Ashley Tellis (Photo: AFP)
No one might ever know what prompted Ashley Tellis, a wellknown foreign policy analyst who has held senior positions in the US government, to tread the dark path that led to his arrest for illegal possession of secret documents. But it might explain his recent deeply critical writing of India, negative comparisons with China and wholesale endorsement of the “democratic backsliding” charge levelled by critics of the Modi government at home and abroad.