A Passage To India

Trump’s pivot on India from friend to foe, punctuated by a higher US tariff rate than expected, hit India watchers by surprise. Trump’s dismissal of the country’s importance to the West hurts Prime Minister Modi politically and India economically, William explains. A third of India’s foreign investment comes from the US. But the world’s fifth-largest economy is far from “dead,” as Trump proclaimed. GDP growth has been outpacing China’s, and the nation has big aspirations to position itself at the center of global supply chains and to become a developed nation by 2047.