- Modi will organize a rare joint press conference with Trump.
- Indian PM offered rapid price concessions before visiting us.
- Modi is the fourth world leader to visit Trump since his return.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will try to rekindle his Bromance with Donald Trump – and to avoid anger by the American president on prices and immigration – when they meet on Thursday in the White House.
Modifs a joint press conference with Trump, said the White House – a rare decision by the Indian chief, which is a prolific social media user, but rarely responds to journalists.
Last in a series of foreign leaders beating a first path to the Oval Office door since the return of the Republican in power, Modi shared good relations with Trump during his first mandate.
The Prime Minister offered rapid price dealerships before his visit, with New Delhi reduction tasks on high -end motorcycles – a boost at Harley -Davidson, the emblematic American manufacturer whose difficulties in India have annoyed Trump .
India has also accepted an American military flight carrying 100 migrants chained last week as part of the overhaul of Trump’s immigration, and New Delhi proceeded to its own “strong repression” of illegal migration.
The biggest career diplomat in India, Vikram Misri, said last week that there had been a “very close relationship” between the leaders, although their links have so far not brought to a Percée on a long sought -after bilateral trade agreement.
Modi was among the first to congratulate “good friend” Trump after his victory in the November elections.
For almost three decades, the American presidents of the two parties prioritize the construction links with India, seeing a natural partner against a growing China.
But Trump also raged against India about trade, the greatest concern of the foreign policy of its new term, in the past, calling the fifth world economy the “largest price”.
The former Trump property magnate shamelessly armed prices against friends and enemies since his return.
“ Trump’s anger ”
Modi “prepared for this, and he seeks to pre -empt the anger of Trump,” said Lisa Curtis, director of the National Security Council in South Asia during Trump’s first mandate.
The Hindu-Nationalist government of the Indian Prime Minister has forced Trump to another absolute priority: to expel undocumented immigrants.
While public attention has focused on the arrivals of Latin America, India is the third source of undocumented immigrants in the United States after Mexico and Salvador.
Indian activists burned a Trump effigy last week after the American plane migrants were brought back by obstacles all the trip, while the opposition accused Modi de weakness.
One thing that Modi is likely to avoid, however, is the emphasis on his file on the rights of Muslims and other minorities.
Trump is unlikely to underline a problem on which the administration of former president Joe Biden offered sweet criticism.
Modi is the fourth world leader to visit Trump since his return, following the Prime Ministers of Israel and Japan and the King of Jordan.
Modi managed to court Trump during his first mandate. The two share a lot in common, both with campaigns on the promises to promote the interests of the majority communities of their country on minorities and the two criticisms stubbornly.
In February 2020, Modi invited Trump in front of an enthusiastic crowd of more than 100,000 people to inaugurate the largest cricket stadium in the world in its original state in Gujarat.
Trump could visit India later this year for a planned Summit of the Quad – a group of Australia, India, Japan and the United States.
