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The new administration features some of Washington’s harshest Pakistan critics. Its transactional approach ensures that longstanding claims by Pakistan about its strategic importance — rooted in its location — will fall on deaf ears. New areas of cooperation during the Joe Biden administration — clean energy and climate change — won’t be priorities. Washington’s foreign aid freeze and dismantling of USAID will largely end development assistance, a pillar of the partnership. On the whole, the Trump administration will be more focused on other issues and places. To its credit, Islamabad has done a decent job of trying to get the Trump administration’s attention. It has leveraged Washing­ton’s concerns about terrorism by pitching itself as a useful counterterrorism partner; it recently helped the US apprehend an IS-K leader.