Modi Visit US - Advantage Trump

Indian (our) Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed his US visit including Portugal and Netherland. India First (Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi-Make In India Policy) clashes to America First (US President Donald Trump – America First Policy). There is no doubt that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump held talks, stepped out into the Rose Garden at the White House and read out their each own prepared statements – two different statements as “joint statement”.
But this time Modi’s US visit is more beneficiary For US (rather to say for Donald Trump) than India (for Narendra Modi). First thing I smelled something missing form Modi-Trump’s first meet. It was not like Modi-Obama’s first meet. Of course in future we will see good progress in America-India and Trump-Modi relationships because of NEED. I observe this meeting as a get-to-know-each other affair not for a deal kind of encounter. There were no tangible achievements on policy levels also. The goal was for the two men to meet each other and have a good conversation about where they see the relationship going. Warmth of Modi-Obama wasn’t seen. Modi didn't switch to 'Donald' with the delectable ease with which he called 'Barack'.  May be due to different background -- one comes from poverty, the other embodies wealth and privilege -- but they are very similar in terms of their politics and how they view the media.
Scenario is now changed from many angles for America-India. India needs FDIs from reach country like US but there are many countries which are eagerly participating in Modi’s Make In India, so India is not just depending on United States only, on the contrary US and Trump has become more dependent on two country China and India for survival and creation of jobs in US. Looking to China’s ambition and intention White House will always preferred to encourage Delhi to increase trade between both Democratic Countries. At the same time US will also try to maintain their relationship with China and Pakistan on certain level to keep India under pressure.
US needs to sell out their arms (as only in this field US is having better technologies and quite ahead too from China, India, Russia and others) to keep their economy live and at present India is the only country which has both capacity and requirements.  Drone and an order for 100 Boeing aircrafts are examples.
Noting much importance with upcoming MALABAR naval exercise and declaring Syed Salahuddin as a terrorist because it do not make any difference on Pakistan that we all knows very well. Plus American President Trump will focus on the terror groups that pose the greatest threat to Americans because of his America First policy.  Even though joint statements mentions much about US-India Cooperation on combating likes of LeT but we will see the Trump administration will be focusing more on Afghanistan-effected terrorist than on India-effected LeT or JeM.

Two points in favour of Modi from this visit:-
First, A Deal to provide surveillance drones to India. This will be helpful for the country.
Second, Donald Trump expects that India Prime Minister Narendra Modi to do much more for 'America First'. The body language of both men was largely positive. And in the end, we even had not one, but two bear hugs.

“The strengthening of India’s defence capabilities with the help of USA is something that we truly appreciate. We have also decided to enhance maritime security cooperation between the two nations,” the prime minister said.
“President Trump and I have also spoken about strengthening bilateral defence technology and our trade and manufacturing partnership, which we believe will be mutually beneficial to us. We also discussed international issues and our common strategic interests in this country,” he said.
But wait and watch
Due to unpredictability of  Donald Trump and there may be chance that within few days he will have forgotten this meeting with Narendra Modi happened or not, one can never rule out the possibility of surprises.

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