Key takeaways from Donald Trump’s meeting with India’s Narendra Modi
Al Jazeera
The Indian prime minister praised Trump while angling to avoid the steep ‘reciprocal’ tariffs the US president plans.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has returned to the White House for his first visit of Donald Trump’s second term as United States president.
Trump and Modi’s relationship has been dubbed a “bromance” in some media outlets – and that affinity continued to simmer strongly during Thursday’s meeting.
The two leaders heaped praise on one another, while publicly sidestepping more prickly points of discussion.
Chief among them was the question of Trump’s newly announced “reciprocal tariffs”, in which he proposes to answer foreign import taxes on US goods with rates equal to what each country imposes.
Trump has long criticised India for its high tariff rate on foreign goods, even reportedly calling Modi the “king of tariffs”.
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