- The latest in a series of foreign leaders, defeating a initial route to the Oval Office door since Republican returns to power, PM Modi shared good relations with President Trump during his first term. The Prime Minister met US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. His meeting with Indian origin entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is also scheduled.
- India offered tariff concessions ahead of PM Modi’s two-day visit to America, New Delhi reduced duties on high-end motorcycles-promoted Harley-Davidson, reputed American manufacturer, whose struggle in his previous term in India Troubled President Trump.
- The Trump administration has vowed mutual tariffs on every country accusing us of duties on American imports, a step that will increase the possibility of a broad global trade war. In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Donald Trump said he would announce a new tariff at 11.30 am. The US also sent back 100 illegal migrants from India in a military flight. In response, India vowed their own strong cracks on illegal stay.
- The Trump administration wants to reduce the US trade deficit with India and hopes that in 2025 there would be a proper bilateral trade deal with New Delhi, the Trump administration officials said before the meeting between President Trump and PM Modi.
- An official said in a briefing for journalists in front of talks in Washington on Thursday afternoon that the goal of the meeting is giving priority to American technology, and both sides are moving towards signing a new defense structure.
- For nearly three decades, American presidents from both sides have preferred construction relations with India, given a natural partner against India against India. But President Trump has created a ruckus against India over trade, which is the biggest foreign policy of his new term.
- The news agency AFP said that PM Modi has “prepared for this, and he is demanding to make Trump’s anger.”
- PM Modi is the fourth world leader to visit Israel and Japan’s Prime Ministers and King of Jordan, after his return.
- In February 2020, PM Modi invited Donald Trump before the cheering crowd of more than one lakh people to inaugurate the world’s largest cricket stadium in his home state of Gujarat. President Trump could have visited India for a fixed summit of Quad later this year-a four-way group of Australia, India, Japan and America.
- India can prove to be important for Trump’s strategy to thwart China, which many American rival in their administration. For example, India has continued its relations with Russia, for example, a major consumer of Russian energy, while the West has worked to cut its consumption since the Ukraine War began.
