Best friends forever?: A file photo of Trump (right) and Modi walking at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on June 26, 2017. Modi will be the fourth world leader to visit Trump at the White House since his return. — Reuters
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will try on a US visit to pick up where he left off four years ago in wooing Donald Trump, as he offered quick tariff concessions in hopes of avoiding the second-term president’s wrath.
For nearly three decades, US presidents from both parties have prioritised building ties with India, seeing a natural partner against a rising China. But Trump has also raged against India over trade, in the past calling the world’s fifth-largest economy the “biggest tariff abuser.”
