Calling President Barack Obama's India trip "a  perfect example of positive foreign policy" noted Indian-American  journalist Fareed Zakaria has advised Washington to be similarly engaged  elsewhere.

    "Obama's trip to India was strategically important, symbolically resonant  and deftly executed," he wrote in an opinion piece in the Washington Post
 
  "Obama's trip highlights an opportunity and a problem," Zakaria wrote in  the piece titled "Will Washington allow the pursuit of positive foreign  policy?"
 
  "Obama's India trip was a perfect example of positive foreign policy," he  wrote noting "The US "has been forging new ties to India since the Clinton  administration, with a policy that has been strategic and bipartisan."
 
  "Obama's decision to attend India's Republic Day – celebrating its  constitution – marked a tipping point," Zakaria wrote.
 
  "India has gone from being a country, 30 years ago, that was reflexively  anti-American to one that is increasingly pro-American," he wrote.
 
  "Bringing India closer to the United States could have broad benefits for  Washington and the world," Zakaria wrote noting, "With more than 1.2 billion people, India is likely to become the next global goliath."
 
  "And while it will probably never grow as fast as China, because of its  size even 7 percent growth over the next two decades – quite attainable  for India – would give it a loud voice in the world's councils of power,"  he wrote.
 
  "India is the most significant example of the benefits of positive foreign  policy, but there are other important ones as well," Zakaria suggested.
 
  The world presents the United States with remarkable opportunities, he  wrote suggesting  "Asia, Latin America and Africa are all moving in the  right direction."
 
  "But these trends are not automatic or self-sustaining," he wrote. "They  require Washington to be engaged and assertive – and also need a political  and media climate in which the urgent does not always trump the   important."