The Indian Prime Minister finds that the largest bully in the world is considering weakness.
President Donald Trump shakes his hand with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a joint press conference in New Delhi on February 25, 2020.
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Donald Trump has created a new golden age of sycophant. Now the White House is reminiscent of Versailles under the absolutist monarchs or the prohibited city of Beijing under the emperors. Leaders and foreign leaders are lined up for US presidential oil. On Thursday Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, presented Trump with such a brilliant object that tickles his fantasy: a glass board on a 24-coat gold stand, which Cook called a “unique unit”. At the time Special Liberations from tariffs that Trump gave the apple. Thanks to the refusal to Congress, which refuses its constitutional duty, Trump essentially has one -sided power to set tariffs, and he uses this powers to threaten companies and countries. To get rid of the president, they offer ampering compliments and baubles.
Few world leaders played in Trump’s game as thoroughly as the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In 2019, Trump and Indian leader met in Houston for mass “Walking fashion“The rally, which attracted more than 50,000 visitors. The meeting was simultaneously an event of the company (developed to help Trump win a rapidly growing Indian American voice), and the opportunity to secure ties between the two countries. At this rally Modi Modi. called Trump’s “Real Friend in the White House”. Next year, Trump visited India for an even greater event called “Trump“At least 100,000 people have attracted at least 100,000. These events have been developed to establish the connections that were both personal and ideological. Modi is often called a colleague of India to Trump. Both men are authoritarian populists who created their coalitions, attacking migrants and minority. connections that can overcome the diplomas. spoke hotly About his “great friendship” with Trump. At this meeting, Trump and Modi promised to double the trade between the two countries.
On Wednesday, Modi and the Indian government learned how little friendship with Trump is worth when the president went to social media to announce his intention to impose a 50 percent of the steps. Term It indicates that it is “among the coolest American levies of any nation.” This trauma was combined with an insult, which is especially likely that in India, a new force with the elite, which is aware of how they are perceived by a larger world. The direct reason for the tariff was that India bought Russian oil. With passive-aggressive despite the fact that Trump wrote The truth is socially, “I don’t care what India is doing with Russia. They can remove their dead economies together, on everything I don’t care.”
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Indian government replied that this criticism selectively and moody applied. It is true that the country buys Russian oil, but it is what the US has offered to do recently as last year because it will help stabilize the world energy market. In addition, the European Union continues to trade with Russia than India.
The Indian government is on solid soil, claiming that the Trump administration is selected as an easy goal. Trump is pressured by NATO allies to do more to help Ukraine, and India, as a mid -level power, makes a convenient stamping bag.
Following India, Trump has undermined the decades of efforts to build closer ties between the two largest democracies in the world. During the Cold War in India and the US, there was a cold relationship because the US supported Pakistan as a rampant against communism, while the subcontinent pursued independence and neutrality policy. But since the 1990s, the United States has adopted a two -party transition policy closer to India, which is now considered as potential Asian colleagues for increasing China.
Trump against India is less relevant to Russia than with the president’s personal peak, which is easy to offend when he feels that his insatiable Amour propre was offended. India and Pakistan held a brief military collision in May. After both countries reached the ceasefire, Trump tried to claim the loan as a broker of peace. This corresponds to its habit to want to be regarded as an indispensable global leader, but India viewed it as an insult to its national sovereignty. June 17 Modi and Trump held a long conversation by phone that Bloomberg describes As “tense”.
Bloomberg also reports:
Despite the fact that the United States never asked for a direct request to recognize Trump’s role in the ceasefire, India saw a shift in a white house after this phone, officials in New Delhi report. After Trump began to attack India publicly, they added that it was clear that the episode marked the turning point in a broader relationship.
Mercury, diplomacy based on the face will probably lead to long -term cooled relationships with India. Some in India contrast Trump’s instability with a much calm relationship that India has used with Russia over the years. The New York Times notes The fact that Modi inside the country “faced a storm criticism over the treatment of Trump administration in India.” Zadip Suri, who held the position of the High Commissioner of India in Australia, said Bloomberg“Russia’s relations are old, tested in time. All those days when the US has been launched in New Delhi, including the United Nations, Moscow stood for India as rock. The oil is a small part of the present history. India does not like to view it as a pressure capitulation.”
One of the consequences of Trump’s impact in the face is that the Indian government is – this Having stepped up your efforts To improve ties with China, despite the fact that there was a border clash with this neighboring country recently, as in 2020. Significantly, SU Fihun, China’s Ambassador to India, used Trump’s last hike to spend a lesson to spend a lesson twitch“Give a bullish inch, he will take a mile.”
The comments of the SU reach the heart. Trump is a bully. His tariff policy, although dressed in the rhetoric of reshuffle and national security, has virtually no strategic basis. It is intended only to feed the Trump’s ego. While the praise of Trump has become prefer Strategy of many countries, there is Little evidence that it works. In fact, like many bullies, Trump is more respected by those who reflect. China who has accepted a solid line in defense of its national interests is Doing better at trading negotiations From the US than in India.
For such medium force as India, the best way to combat Trump is not flattering or fake boonhomia. Trump has no real friends, but only in April. The best way is to develop trading transactions with other major economies such as China, Brazil or South Africa. Such a policy would return to the Cold War strategy in India on the construction of an unreasonable bloc. In this matter, even the nominal allies of the United States, such as Canada, Mexico and the European Union, should think about creating such a block. The only way to defeat the bully is to create a steady power that can push. In Trump’s era, flattery won’t give you anywhere.
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