US President Donald Trump said that he would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a possible bilateral meeting at Washington DC as February. After a telephonic conversation with PM Modi, Mr. Trump said, “The first conversation among the leaders was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States.”
Mr. Trump also told reporters that he discussed the issue of illegal Indian immigrants in America with PM Modi, expressing confidence that the Indian Prime Minister would “what is right” about the matter, underlined this. While doing this matter is going on.
Separately, in a readout of a phone call between the two leaders, the White House stated that Trump had taken a step towards “fair” bilateral trading relations and deep Indo-US cooperation.
Indo-US relations under Trump’s 1 presidential post
India enjoyed a comfortable relationship with the United States during the first term of President Donald Trump at the White House. Republican shared some remarkable similarities in its style and raised slogans with PM Modi, especially when it comes to their rhetoric to make their nations a great rhetoric again, contribute to their strong personal relations.
The two leaders addressed thousands of people in September 2019 in Houston and in two separate rallies in Ahmedabad in February 2020. PM Modi was among the top three world leaders in the world to speak with Mr. Trump after his amazing election victory in November 2024.
Between 2017-21, the Trump administration saw the revival of the Moribund Quadrilateral Security Forum (Quad)-which brings together to work for an independent, open, prosperous and inclusive Indo-Pacific sector to America, Australia, India and Japan. Is. His administration is also America’s oldest and largest military command – Pacific Command – India -Prashant Command, in a large -scale symbolic step, India’s importance to the US Army to combat China’s militaryization in the South China Sea In a massive symbolic step to indicate.
Under Trump, the US National Security Strategy stressed that “Indo-Pacific” spread from the west coast of India to the west coast of the United States. This articulation of the Indo-Pacific Framework provided a solid regional anchor for India-US cooperation for the first time.
Mr. Trump’s foreign policies were mostly carried forward by the Biden administration, doubled on the Indo-Pacific strategy and saw India as its regional partner in gaining balance of power in Asia and its water. During the Trump 2.0, there was little reason to believe the situation separated.
What can change under Trump 2.0
However, during his campaign for re -election, the 78 -year -old Republican called India a “great abusive” on trade and vowed to use tariffs on global imports in the US to cure imbalance. He also threatened the BRICS Group of Nations, of which India is a part, with tariffs if he did not accept his demand for not creating a new currency.
Talking to the House Republican in a Florida Retreat on Monday again on Monday, he said that the US would impose tariffs on countries that “harm” the US because they nominated China, India and Brazil as high-tariff countries as high-tariff countries. .
But his tariff is threatened on one side, Mr. Trump’s second term is expected to bring both continuity and change in his India policies.
America’s largest trading partner is India and in 2023/24 the two-way trade is more than $ 118 billion, with India posted a $ 32 billion. India is also an important strategic partner in American efforts to counter China.
A White House statement said that on Monday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he emphasized “to increase the purchase of India’s made security equipment and move towards proper bilateral trading relations.
The White House also said that Mr. Trump and Mr. Modi emphasized their commitment to the quad with India to host Quad leaders later this year.
The US plays an important role in making the US a pre-eminent global power. Its technical industry mainly depends on Indian workers trained in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) who go to America with the help of H -1B visas. In 2023, Indian professionals formed the fourth position of 3.5 million STEM workers in the US.
Mr. Trump has promised to tighten the illegal immigration, but he said that he is open to the legal migration of skilled workers and India is known for the large scale pools of IT professionals, many of which work around the world We do.
According to a report by Bloomberg News, India and the United States have identified some 18,000 Indian migrants who are illegally in the US. After Monday’s phone call, Mr. Trump told reporters on Monday that when it came to America illegally, it comes to withdrawing Indian migrants, then PM Modi “what is right”.
Republican is also getting away from some hiccups in Indo-US relations, which came under the Biden administration, especially a conspiracy to kill a failed murder on American land against a Sikh separatist Gurpant Singh Pannun, a Sikh separatist from Washington, in a conspiracy to murder. . The US readout this week and did not mention the matter for the last time.