US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week, news agency Reuters reported. Donald Trump announced the meeting at a campaign event in Flint, Michigan, while he was speaking about US trade with India. He gave no details on where they would meet, the report added. PM Modi is “fantastic”, said Trump. “He happens to be coming to meet me next week,” Trump told the crowd but did not provide any further details of their meeting.
PM Modi will visit the United States from September 21 to 23 during which he will take part in the Quad Summit and address the ‘Summit of the Future’ at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The Ministry’s programme listed only PM Modi’s participation in the Quad Summit in Delaware on Saturday, his speech to the Indian diaspora on Long Island on Sunday, and his address to the United Nations Summit of the Future on Monday.
It did not mention meeting with Trump but said, “On the sidelines of the Summit, the Prime Minister would be holding bilateral meetings with several world leaders and discuss issues of mutual interest.”
Trump calls India ‘very big abuser’ of trade ties with US
This comes after Trump said at a campaign event on Tuesday that India was a “very big abuser” of the US-India trade relationship. He said this because of the high duties it imposes on some imports from the US and said New Delhi “is very tough” in negotiations.
“If anybody charges us 10 cents, if they charge us $2, if they charge us 100 per cent 250, we charge them the same,” he said.
Listing India among them, he said that countries the US was trading with are “the sharpest people. They’re not a little bit backward … they’re at the top of their game, and they use it against us”.
He added, “China is the toughest of all, but we were taking care of China with the tariffs, so we’re going to do a reciprocal trade.”
Donald Trump and Narendra Modi shared a strong personal rapport during Trump’s presidency (2017-2021), evident in events like the “Howdy Modi” rally in Houston and “Namaste Trump” in India.
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