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The US-China Trade War: Where is it heading? How Modi’s win in India affects the US-India relations in light of China?

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Donald Trump once said that if China did not halt its illegal endeavors, inclusive of its theft on American trade secrets, he would use every lawful way to deal with them.

In June 2016, an aspiring presidential candidate, Mr. Donald Trump stood between a crowd of supporters and bales of crushed aluminum in a company outside of Pittsburgh. He made a promise that it wasn’t difficult to keep on trade. In a statement, he said that if China did not halt its illegal endeavors, inclusive of its theft on American trade secrets, he would use every lawful way to deal with them. He said that was very easy repeatedly. He went on telling the workers at the recycle enterprise Alumisource, an earlier steel plant in Monessen, Pennsylvania, that he would use every constitutional presidential power to cure trade disputes. After three years since his election, he clearly delivered on his promise.

Trump’s tariff –driven direction against the globe’s ranked No. 2 economy has indicated that broadening trade powers has for real been the simple part. However, occurrences this week indicate that winning a trade battle against China seems to be hard than expected. It is not according to his anticipation on which he once tweeted that the war would be very straightforward. It is because Beijing is now displaying more indications of digging in than capitulating.

Trump’s hawks have been debating that ever since the president took charge, the only directive to get China to make substantial changes was by pinching it on the nose till you force surrender. However, the big quiz trending now is whether the approach may be failing with daunting implications for the global economy. The hope for a resolution from the rising tensions now sits on a planned meeting between Trump and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, in a late-June Group of 20 Japan summit. The other question that now people are asking themselves is how the US-India relations in light of China will be affected by Modi’s win.

Modi’s win implication on the US-India relations in light of China

Following the end of India’s elections, the ruling side Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister, Modi, secured a clear win. Numerous analysts have viewed it as a ringing endorsement of Narendra Modi’s policy directive over the past couple of years. The thing that passes a lot of Western commentators is that the globe’s largest ever democratic activity has significant consequences outside of India. Pakistan, China, and even the US are likely to be affected by Modi’s aggressive policy stance.

From a Western perspective, it’s simple to forget that there’s at least one superpower in continental Asia. China hits the news headlines for developing 5G technology quicker than the U.S. It adopts an increasingly militaristic structure within the South China Sea. India is a nuclear-armed country that normally flies below the radar displaying itself as a benign democracy. However, this is to change under Modi. The reason he was voted in was the desire to challenge China’s military and economic muscle-flexing around the continent.

In 2018, India started working on INS Vikrant, the first ever aircraft carrier. It’s planned to initiate sea trials in 2020. Many see this as a direct response to China’s power and posturing around the areas of the

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