In February US President Donald Trump hosted Narendra Modi in the Oval Office, embracing the Indian prime minister and hailing him as “a great friend”.
Just six months later, relations between the leaders of the world’s two biggest democracies have deteriorated, culminating in Trump imposing a 25 per cent tariff on Indian goods this week and unleashing a blunt denunciation of the world’s fifth-largest economy.
In a series of combative late-night Truth Social posts, Trump criticised India’s trade barriers as “strenuous and obnoxious” and placed the world’s fastest-growing large economies alongside an American adversary, writing that both India and Russia were saddled with “dead economies”.
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