Modi Offers ‘Make India Great Again’ to Trump’s MAGA
PM Narendra Modi with US President Donald Trump. Image credit White House
Trump Talks LNG & Nuclear Tradeoff with Modi Amid Reciprocal Tariff
By Manish Anand
New Delhi, February 14: India and the US resolved to deepen ties with energy cooperation in focus. Prime Minister Narendra Modi apparently aligned India’s vision with Trump’s MAGA. “Make India Great Again (MIGA) and Make America Great Again (MAGA) will give us MEGA,” said Modi at the joint press conference with Trump.
The Prime Minister asserted that India and the US will double bilateral trade. Trump stated that India and the US will soon wrap up trade negotiations.
But Trump at the same time rued that India “imposes very high tariff, even 70 per cent, to make possibilities of our cars selling there impossible. Now, we have got it simple with reciprocal tariff”.
Trump mentioned that India has taken steps to lower duties, saying “there’re good steps”. Earlier, a White House official told reporters that the “early body language of India (on trade) is positive and an agreement will be signed by end of this year”.
In reference to the extradition of 26/11 Mumbai terror convict Tahawwur Rana, Trump said: “We’re immediately giving a We are going to give the very violent person immediately and there are more to follow.”
Modi and Trump held four-hour-long discussions in the White House. India’s foreign secretary Vikram Misri later said that Modi and Trump had separate meeting.
The US appears to have offered the Japan model to India. “We are going to do a lot of trade in the LNG (liquified natural gas). India and the US will cooperate on energy,” said Trump.
Earlier, Japan agreed to buy LNG from the US during the summit meeting of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba with Trump. The US President also asserted IMEC (India-Middle East-Europe) connectivity during press conference with Modi.
Modi Hopes to Elevate India-US Relations with ‘Friend Trump’
Trump claimed that the US has a deficit of $100 billion in trade with India. “India is the highest tariff nation in the world. It’s hard to sell in India. Right now, we are reciprocal nation. Whatever India charges, we charge them,” said Trump.
But Modi exuded confidence of doubling bilateral trade in quick time without responding to Trump’s claims on “trade barriers”. Trump called China a “terrible nation” in Modi’s presence, claiming that Beijing “took away hundreds of billions of dollars from the US’.
Modi invited Trump to visit India. Trump, while replying to a question on Sikh separatists in the US working against India, said: “We’ll never allow them”. Trump agreed to a reporter’s claim that “the Biden administration was bad for India”. “I agree with that. We will have great relations now,” said Trump.
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