India has 'good vibes' with Trump, and Modi is trying to keep it that way
From tariff concessions to accepting deportees, India is pulling out all the stops to win favor with President Donald Trump ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the White House on Thursday.
From tariff concessions to accepting deportees, India is pulling out all the stops to win favor with President Donald Trump ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the White House on Thursday.
India, the world’s largest democracy, enters a second Trump term in a relatively strong position. Trump and Modi, India’s Hindu nationalist leader of more than a decade, have similar worldviews and a personal rapport that goes back years, and India has become a strategic U.S. partner in countering its neighbor China.
“Donald Trump is not a leader who operates with a very sophisticated framework. A lot of it is based on vibes,” said Milan Vaishnav, a senior fellow and director of the South Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international affairs think tank based in Washington.
“And what India has done is make sure the vibes are good.”
Following the leaders of Israel, Japan and Jordan, Modi is only the fourth foreign leader to visit Trump since his inauguration, which Vaishnav said demonstrates India’s importance to the U.S.
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