President Joe Biden is honoring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a state visit this week. Biden is extending the high honor even though Modi’s government has stayed on the sidelines in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and as human rights activists express alarm about the state of India’s democracy. The Biden administration sees its ties to India as a defining relationship, one that will be essential to confronting challenges as varied as climate change, artificial intelligence and China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. Modi's four-day U.S. visit begins Tuesday and includes a stop in New York for meetings with business and thought leaders and a yoga event at the United Nations.

President Joe Biden is honoring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a state visit this week. Biden is extending the high honor even though Modi’s government has stayed on the sidelines in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and as human rights activists express alarm about the state of India’s democracy. The Biden administration sees its ties to India as a defining relationship, one that will be essential to confronting challenges as varied as climate change, artificial intelligence and China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. Modi’s four-day U.S. visit begins Tuesday and includes a stop in New York for meetings with business and thought leaders and a yoga event at the United Nations.

  • anathema_device@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @SeeStars It’s called coalition building and soft diplomacy. Biden is a master of it. The last thing you want is to alienate a powerful nation like India or China and drive them further towards Russia. Trump never understood that because he’s an idiot.

    Unfortunately soft diplomacy means shaking hands with some horrible people :(