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Modi hopes to rekindle Trump bromance
For nearly three decades, US presidents from both parties have prioritized building ties with India, seeing a natural partner against a rising China.
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AFP - Wed, 12, Feb 2025
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President Donald J. Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi walk along a cordon of cultural performers upon President Trump’s arrival Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, India. / Official White House Photo by Shea Craighead
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will try on a US visit to pick up where he left off four years ago in wooing Donald Trump, as he offered quick tariff concessions in hopes of avoiding the second-term president's wrath.
For nearly three decades, US presidents from both parties have prioritized building ties with India, seeing a natural partner against a rising China. But Trump has also raged against India over trade, in the past calling the world's fifth-largest economy the "biggest tariff abuser."
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