P. K. Balachandran
US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met in Washington on Thursday to iron out differences in the larger interest of Indo-American relations. Strong Indo-US relations area a critical necessity for both India and the US given their adversarial relations with the common challenger China.
The optics at the White House parleys were excellent. The two leaders shook hands and hugged each other before they addressed the international press at the White House immediately before holding bilateral talks.
“I appreciate how President Trump always keeps his country first. I do the same – that is something that we have in common,” Modi said. And complementing Modi, Trump said: “He is doing a great job in India and he and I share a great friendship. We will continue to build on ties between our nations.”
Trump emphasized that US and India have a “great friendship” and added that he thought that “it’s only going to get closer”.
The fact that Modi’s party the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had swept the Delhi elections only a few days before, would have enhanced his profile in the Trump camp and boost his efforts to “deepen the India-US partnership” in key areas such as technology, trade, defence and energy as sought by Modi.
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