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Rubio Says U.S.-India Ties Are Strong, Despite Fury Over Trump’s Actions

Rubio Says U.S.-India Ties Are Strong, Despite Fury Over Trump’s Actions

Published by Sam Flores

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that the Trump administration remained committed to a strategic partnership with India, apparently trying to defuse tensions from President Trump’s aggressive actions in the past year against India and Indians living in the United States. “The U.S.-India relationship has not lost any momentum,” he said in a news conference in New Delhi on the second day of a four-day trip to India. “The relationship continues to be strong.” Mr. Rubio, who has met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other officials on the trip, said the United States wants to continue working with India on trade and investment in advanced technologies. And he said Mr. Trump’s efforts to impose tariffs on Indian imports to the United States — a 50 percent in initial salvos last summer — were not aimed at India specifically but were part of a global effort to create better balances of trade for the United States. The tariffs are a tax paid by American companies that import goods from India. “There’s a huge …

U.S.-India trade talks revamp as Trump sees other deals being done

U.S.-India trade talks revamp as Trump sees other deals being done

Published by Sam Flores

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 13, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters A renewed push to conclude a U.S.-India trade deal may get underway, analysts say, as the White House sees other countries and power blocs working harder than ever to remove barriers to trade and tariffs. The urgency and impetus to get talks over the line could come after the EU and India signed off on a long-awaited trade deal on Tuesday, with the agreement seeing both sides phase out tariffs on the vast majority of each other’s imports. “The EU–India deal could … light a fire under efforts to conclude a U.S.–India trade deal and help to move negotiations forward on a comprehensive bilateral trade agreement,” Mark Linscott, nonresident senior fellow on India at the Atlantic Council, commented Tuesday. Trump has yet to react to the EU-India deal, which was two decades in the making, but Washington could view bilateral trade agreements between other powerful nations with …

A Trump confidant arrives in New Delhi. Can he reset U.S.-India relations?

A Trump confidant arrives in New Delhi. Can he reset U.S.-India relations?

Published by Sam Flores

NEW DELHI — After the new U.S. ambassador’s first day on the job in New Delhi, one thing is clear: MAGA-style diplomacy has reached India. Ambassador Sergio Gor, a confidant of President Trump, addressed State Department staff and members of the media in India’s capital on Monday in an inaugural event imbued with a familiar sense of stagecraft. Source link