AHMEDABAD, Feb 22 — US President Donald Trump will open the world’s biggest cricket stadium and watch the sun set at the famed Taj Mahal during a lightning visit to India starting Monday, but behind the spectacular optics he is expected to face a protectionist counter-punch on trade. Trump’s...
Para-military soldiers from the Rapid Action Force stand in front of Sardar Patel Stadium, in Motera, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, on February 21, 2020. — AFP pic
“We’re not treated very well by India, but I happen to like Prime Minister Modi a lot,” Trump, 73, said before his maiden official visit to the nation of 1.3 billion with First Lady Melania, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner. It will be rammed with around 100,000 people for an event dubbed “Namaste Trump”, payback for a “Howdy, Modi” rally in Houston last year in front of some of America’s vast Indian diaspora.The Trumps will then fly to the Taj Mahal, the white marble “jewel of Muslim art” according to Unesco, but afterwards it will be down to business in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Trade relations have worsened as Trump’s “America First” strategy to reduce the US trade deficit bumps up against Modi’s “Make in India” drive as Asia’s third-largest economy flags.
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