On February 24-25th, US President Donald Trump made his first visit to India, where he was welcomed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and an estimated 100,000 attendees at a “Namaste Trump” rally held in his home province of Gujarat. While the two-day visit did not conclude with an agreement to end an ongoing trade tiff that began in 2018, the leaders announced India’s plans to buy US military equipment, including Apache and MH-60 Romeo helicopters, in a deal valued at $3 billion. While President Trump and Prime Minister Modi exchanged compliments, they remained silent on a wave of violence that broke out in Delhi as Hindu nationalists attacked a group of Muslim activists who were protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that was passed in December. Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval surveyed the situation in Delhi in the late evening of the 25th, but Prime Minister Modi didn’t acknowledge the violence until after Trump’s departure, and did so through a pair of tweets. Read the full Policy Alert here.
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