Trump rant against India |
US President Donald Trump unloaded on India among other countries during an epic rant while announcing American withdrawal from the Paris climate change accord. The shrill speech, replete with claims of American victimhood at the hands of the rest of the world, casts a chill on Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s expected visit to the White House in late Jne 2017. India took note of Trump`s direct, no-holds-barred attack in which he accused New Delhi of trying to extract "billions and billions and billions" of dollars in foreign aid from the developed world to sign up for the climate accord. Although dates for the Prime Minister`s trip have not been formally or officially announced, the White House has penciled in June 26-27 for the first face-to-face meeting between Trump and Modi. That expected meeting will now take place under a cloud of misgivings, including the Trump administration`s crackdown of guest worker visas that is adversely affecting Indian businesses, its squeeze on US manufacturing abroad that is forcing a scaling down of US investment in India, and now its withdrawal from the climate change accord.
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