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June 23: In India, a rebranded ‘Trump Village’ celebrates US president
A rural Indian settlement with little electricity or running water renamed itself "Trump Village" on Friday in an unusual gesture to the American president ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to Washington.
A huge billboard declaring "Welcome to Trump Village" in Hindi and English, accompanied with a beaming portrait of the US president, was unveiled in the tiny hamlet officially known as Marora, in the largely agriculture northern state of Haryana.
There have been other at times bizarre overtures from India toward Trump and the US.
A small Hindu group marked the occasion of Trump's 71st birthday last week by feeding a giant poster of the president slices of cake in the heart of New Delhi.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-06-23/india-rebranded-trump-village-celebrates-us-president
-- 2018 --
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February 21: The US president’s son is in India on a week-long visit to expand the Trump Organization’s real estate business in Asia’s third-largest economy.
Trump Jr is wooing India to make his real estate empire great again!
https://qz.com/india/1211991/donald-trump-jr-is-in-india-to-promote-his-real-estate-empire/
February 21: Donald Trump Jr.’s tour through India is staggeringly corrupt
The Trump brand is surprisingly hot in India — and the president’s son is exploiting his connections to milk this moment.
President Trump’s eldest son will be spending his time in India promoting Trump-branded luxury apartments across the country. He’ll be meeting with real estate brokers and potential buyers throughout the week in his family business’s biggest market outside the US.
He’s also offering a special reward to Indians who buy property from him: He’ll join them for an intimate meal.
Indian newspapers have been running advertisements that promise homebuyers willing to pay a roughly $38,000 booking fee an opportunity to “join Mr. Donald Trump Jr. for a conversation and dinner.”
Government ethics experts in the US are appalled by that prospect, and say that the arrangement encourages Indians — especially those with ties to India’s government — to use purchases of Trump-branded property as a way to gain favor with the Trump administration.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/2/21/17031706/donald-trump-jr-india-conflict-of-interest
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March 5: Trump to Strip India of Special Tariff Status, Escalating Trade Tensions
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/us/politics/trump-us-india-tariffs.html
March 21: Political Corruption and the Art of the Deal
How Trump's business partnerships in India are creating conflicts of interest in the White House and corrupting the presidency
https://newrepublic.com/article/147351/political-corruption-art-deal
July 27: Trump Is Losing India
The president has deep business ties to the country and an ideological affinity with its government. But the relationship is not working out.
“I love Hindu” was how Donald Trump put it, speaking to a cheering audience of Indian Americans at an election rally in 2016. “We are going to be best friends,” he added of his hopes for U.S. ties with India. “There won’t be any relationship more important to us.”
And yet, as with so often in the Trump era, things are not quite going according to plan.
Many U.S. foreign policy thinkers see India, the world’s largest democracy, as a crucial future balance against a rising China. And at first it appeared that Trump would go on to become an unusually pro-Indian president.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/india-was-ready-to-embrace-trump-its-not-working-out.html
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December 2: Why Trump’s visa plans mean desperate housewives in India
Trump’s plan to overhaul the US visa system won’t just turn the screw on India’s IT workers. The dependents of even successful applicants may lose the right to work – reviving the days of the ‘involuntary housewife visa’
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/2175873/why-trumps-visa-plans-mean-desperate-housewives-india
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January 3: Donald Trump mocks India PM Narendra Modi over Afghanistan library
US President Donald Trump has mocked the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funding a library in Afghanistan.
Mr Trump suggested the contribution was of no use.to reconstruction efforts in the country.
"That's like five hours of what we spend," the US president mocked.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-46746043/donald-trump-mocks-india-pm-narendra-modi-over-afghanistan-library
January 3: India responds to Trump's 'Afghan library' dig at PM Modi
Trump suggested India's contribution to development in Afghanistan was minimal, compared with that of the US.
A statement provided to AFP news agency by government sources in New Delhi said: "India plays a significant role as a development partner," in Afghanistan, with projects aimed at achieving "a tangible improvement in the lives of its people".
As the "largest donor in the region", New Delhi has helped with infrastructure projects, humanitarian assistance and economic development, the statement said.
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The projects include a 218-kilometre road, a dam providing irrigation to farmers and training programmes for more than 3,500 Afghans in India.
New Delhi has also provided 1.1 million tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan as well as a 400-bed children's hospital built in 1972 and renovated after the fall of the Taliban in 2002.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/india-responds-trump-afghan-library-dig-pm-modi-190103134757592.html
March 5: India prepares response to Trump’s trade salvo
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/india-prepares-response-to-trumps-trade-salvo.html
March 5: With Trump silent, no 'sheriff' in town on Pakistan-India crisis, ex-diplomats say
Analysis: Instead of playing role as mediator, U.S. tilts to India amid growing impatience with Pakistan and its alleged links to extremists.
When India and Pakistan stood on the brink of war in 1999, President Bill Clinton waded into the crisis with personal diplomacy, forceful letters and stern warnings, threatening tough economic action against Islamabad unless it backed down.
But as tensions escalated last week between India and Pakistan, President Donald Trump and many of his senior aides were preoccupied with a high-stakes summit with North Korea, as well as a heated congressional hearing featuring his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
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It was the most serious confrontation between the South Asian nuclear-armed rivals in decades, but the Trump administration was effectively a bystander -- it did not seek to mediate the standoff as the U.S. has in the past, several former and foreign diplomats told NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-silent-no-sheriff-town-pakistan-india-crisis-ex-diplomats-n979406
March 11: Trade Talks Episode 76: Trump versus India: Fighting over Which Poor Countries Are Special
The Trump administration pulled India and Turkey from the US Generalized System of Preferences, a program that offers zero tariffs to imports from poor countries. Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown explain the decision and how it fits into a broader battle between rich and poor countries around special and differential treatment and how it is holding up progress on WTO negotiations.
https://piie.com/experts/peterson-perspectives/trade-talks-episode-76-trump-versus-india-fighting-over-which-poor
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March 26: Trump Is Playing Chicken With India, And No One Is Winning
President Donald Trump turned his trade war on India this month by revoking the country's access to lower tariffs. He thinks the country's import controls are too strict and has decided if we can't sell our goods there, we'll make it harder for them to do business here. Never mind that many Americans benefit from cheaper products, Trump believes reciprocal tariffs are how you level the playing field.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidvolodzko/2019/03/26/trump-is-playing-chicken-with-india-and-no-one-is-winning/#4d91599259e9
April 6: Trump's Republican Base Is Wary of India
Core Trump supporters view trade deals as benefiting other countries at the expense of the United States.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/trumps-republican-base-wary-india-50817
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May 20: India election 2019: Echoes of Trump in Modi's border politics
"While Trump is building his physical wall, Modi is creating a figurative one through policies like the NRC [National Registry of Citizens]," says Milan Vaishnav, director of the South Asia programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Though Mr Modi came to power two years before Mr Trump, the resurgence of his party's unbridled religious nationalism has come to define this year's election, and the struggle for India's identity as a pluralistic democracy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48334689
May 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has thanked the people of India for giving him a "historic mandate" of five more years in office, after a landslide victory in the general election.
"We all want a new India. I want to bow down my head and say thank you," he said in a victory address to supporters of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The BJP is projected to get about 300 of the 543 seats in parliament.
It is likely to take a larger share of the vote than in the 2014 elections.
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The main opposition alliance, which is headed by Rahul Gandhi's Congress party, has admitted defeat.
The general election was widely viewed as a referendum on the prime minister's Hindu nationalist politics, and the victory was won despite growing unemployment, fears of a recession and a slump in industrial production.
Messages of congratulation have been sent from a number of world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and China's President Xi Jinping.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48389130
-- 2020 --
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