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hydrabadi_arab
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SoulSpokesman
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hydrabadi_arab
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Right now Indians are asking Modi to surrender and accept all of USA demands. 50% is literal embargo, will stop all exports of goods to USA. A stuff Indians always dreamed US will do to Pakistan.
And Trump isnt stopping here.
Blain2
THINK TANK: CONSULTANT
The US was being played for SURE by India hyping up the China threat. China and US can come to terms and operate in a detente which is mutually beneficial. What was happening in the Biden days was the constant fear-mongering against China by the Indian lobby and GoI. There are China-haters in US security establishment and the Indian lobbies had a nexus with them to push a narrative that India is indispensable in the QUAD. The idiotic Biden admin and democrats were buying into it hook, line and sinker.
hydrabadi_arab
SpeedLimited
USA wanted to contain China. They asked India to step up and India signed agreements. Once push come to shove India backed out against China in Ladakh 2020. USA made agreement public in 2021.
"S. Jaishankar and Rajnath Singh, who were standing next to Pompeo and Esper, did not name China. Rajnath Singh’s prepared remarks contained this line, later deleted: “Excellencies, in the area of defence, we are challenged by reckless aggression on our northern borders.” This deletion was not given to the Indian translator in English, who read out the original text and the Americans released it."
Jaishankar and Rajnath were scared to name China even when they were signing USA backed contain China agreements. These two clowns only bark against Pakistan.
Taimoor
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What falling out with the US means for India
Trump’s move threatens the country’s economy and Modi’s dominance of domestic politics — and could lead to realignment
www.ft.com
Trump’s move threatens the country’s economy and Modi’s dominance of domestic politics — and could lead to realignment
Sushant Singh
PublishedAug 12 2025
The writer is a lecturer in south Asian studies at Yale University.
In February, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood beside US President Donald Trump at the White House, projecting optimism as they pledged to lift bilateral trade to $500bn by 2030 and hinted at a new comprehensive trade agreement. In a display of bonhomie emblematic of deepening strategic co-operation, Modi invited the US president to India for the planned Quad leaders’ summit later this year. Echoing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, Modi declared he was working to “Make India Great Again”, adding that “Maga plus Miga becomes a mega partnership for prosperity.”
Within just a few months, this mega-partnership has given way to mutual recriminations and punitive action. Trump announced tariffs of 25 per cent on Indian imports, accusing New Delhi of erecting “strenuous and obnoxious” trade barriers, then promptly doubled them to a draconian 50 per cent with threats of further increases. The reason: India’s continued purchases of Russian oil, which Washington contends are undermining its sanctions regime on Moscow. Trump has ruled out further negotiations until these disputes are resolved.
Efforts to finalise an interim trade deal fell apart abruptly after five rounds of talks, despite India’s willingness to increase US energy and defence imports and to lower tariffs on American industrial goods. The collapse, due to political miscalculations and hardened positions on agricultural norms and quotas, has left $190bn of annual trade in limbo and a $46bn deficit unaddressed.
Trump’s actions have triggered a wide-ranging fallout. The decision to subject India to the highest tariff rates of any Asian partner sharply undermines New Delhi’s ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. Although the foreign ministers of Australia, Japan, US and India recently met in Washington, the much anticipated Quad leaders’ summit now seems unlikely this year. Instead, by coercively leveraging its economic might, the US risks driving India closer to Russia, and potentially even to China, which Modi is planning to visit later this month.
Rather than buttressing India as a counterweight to Chinese assertiveness — the premise that had tied India and the US for the past 25 years — Trump seems to be abandoning New Delhi. Meanwhile, he has courted Pakistan with preferable tariff rates and an oil exploration pact just months after India and Pakistan teetered on the edge of war, spotlighting Kashmir and treating the two nations as equals — moves that India abhors. The sense of grievance was aggravated when Trump hosted Pakistan’s army chief for lunch at the White House in June.
If Trump follows through, the economic impact on India will be severe. The doubling of tariffs threatens India’s $87bn export engine to the US — 18 per cent of its total exports and more than 2 per cent of GDP. Industry experts warn of a 40-50 per cent reduction in shipments, especially for labour-intensive sectors such as textiles, jewellery and automobiles. Small and medium-sized industries face a crisis in competitiveness, while GDP growth forecasts have been revised down by as much as 1 per cent. The immediate market impact is acute: a weaker rupee, risk of imported inflation, an exodus of foreign portfolio investors, and rising borrowing costs for foreign currency debtors.
These developments also risk upending India’s domestic politics. Modi, whose exaggerated claims of foreign policy achievements and strongman image — anchored in his supposed personal rapport with leaders like Trump — have been integral to his political standing among India’s middle-class, now faces withering domestic criticism. The opposition Indian National Congress party labelled him “Narendra Surrender” for yielding to pressure from Trump. US-backed Hindu nationalist groups, politically vital for Modi, feel jettisoned by Trump’s attacks on India.
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party lost its parliamentary majority in the last election, and the current spat reopens questions about his economic stewardship and diplomatic choices. His weakness in tackling China, accentuated as he is spurned by Trump, could become another domestic vulnerability. It is Modi’s lowest American moment since he was denied a visa in 2005 due to his role as Gujurat’s chief minister during a wave of anti-Muslim violence in 2002.
At risk is three decades of India’s economic ascent and its careful positioning as an emerging power, shaped in the shadow of US strategic backing. Trump has shredded India’s road map; it could be replaced by strategic drift, realignment or eventual rapprochement. In 2020, Modi hosted Trump at a rally of 100,000 people in Ahmedabad. As they shook hands a final time, the Rolling Stones song filled the stadium: “You can’t always get what you want”. It turns out that, with Trump, Modi can’t get what he wants — or what India needs.
Taimoor
Elite Member
@Indians , been telling you lot, while you been living in denial. Your country, by default, and by design is a third world country. There is no builtin quality to make you a great country or super power that you lot think you are. You signed for this anti China project and you got your largess for last 25 years (Now FT confirms this as well).
Know your place, pain will less felt.
Know your place, pain will less felt.
Taimoor
Elite Member
‘Deport now, appeal later’: India added to UK’s fast-track deportation list for foreign criminals
UK home secretary Yvette Cooper said, “For far too long, foreign criminals have been exploiting our immigration system. That has to end.”
‘Deport now, appeal later’: India added to UK’s fast-track deportation list for foreign criminals
Who all are on the list
Previously, the list included Finland, Nigeria, Estonia, Albania, Belize, Mauritius, Tanzania and Kosovo. The expanded list now adds India, Angola, Australia, Botswana, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Guyana, Indonesia, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Uganda and Zambia.........................................................
YOU DO THE MATH.
Blain2
THINK TANK: CONSULTANT
I would not look at any of this as a zero sum game. India and the US will arrive at some level of understanding given India's vulnerabilities (regardless of the bravado). The relations will limp along.
Taimoor
Elite Member
"Trump’s move threatens the country’s economy and Modi’s dominance of domestic politics"
You bhakhtoraas, watch over your shoulders. There might be a silent regime change on the horizon. Your "pappu" Rahul Gandhi all of sudden is doing fancy presentations on election rigging.
Bottom line is, when pockets starts feeling the pinch, all ideologies goes out of the window, specially in third world country like India.
You bhakhtoraas, watch over your shoulders. There might be a silent regime change on the horizon. Your "pappu" Rahul Gandhi all of sudden is doing fancy presentations on election rigging.
Bottom line is, when pockets starts feeling the pinch, all ideologies goes out of the window, specially in third world country like India.
Taimoor
Elite Member
Not without India showing returns for all the 25 years long fattening by US and west.
America do not see Russia as threat, and eagerness to engage Putin and resolve Ukraine conflict, they need full focus on China. China is THE number one, rather only priority for America.
If India is not showing, or simply not capable, to be the bulwark against China (the beating by spiked bat if anything to go by), then America/west will not see India's utility. There is already talk of shifting focus on Asia pacific countries.
Distant_Observer
Trusted Member
That leverage Indians had over Pakistan is now gone. India's word means nothing now. They have further compounded this with their fake news factory and incessant lying. They no longer have any integrity and the US is unwilling to back their lies which they did for 15 years.
Their gambit was the post 9/11, Islam is a threat to the western world and they are the saviours and the victims blah blah. Arabs just gave the US $8 trillion tribute and this has been now put to bed.
The rug has been pulled. India is just another 3rd world country that people laugh at on social media. Good riddance.
Their gambit was the post 9/11, Islam is a threat to the western world and they are the saviours and the victims blah blah. Arabs just gave the US $8 trillion tribute and this has been now put to bed.
The rug has been pulled. India is just another 3rd world country that people laugh at on social media. Good riddance.
Muji.Iqbal
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No doubt USA is propping up India against China.
lol, but China will prop up Pakistan to keep India in check.
We need to work with the Chinese as much as possible.
Perhaps China can give Pakistan ICBM technology, Insh'Allah.
lol, but China will prop up Pakistan to keep India in check.
We need to work with the Chinese as much as possible.
Perhaps China can give Pakistan ICBM technology, Insh'Allah.
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