"India acted in legitimate self-defence (on the Balakot airstrikes in February 2019) but behaved in a prudent fashion after the attack," said John Bolton, former National Security Advisor to US President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview with ThePrint's National & Strategic Affairs editor Jyoti Malhotra. Bolton discussed his new tell-all book 'The Room Where It Happened' as well as the Ladakh crisis, US troops in Afghanistan, Trump-Modi bonhomie and how countering China's "long-term" goals requires global cooperation.