{"id":5332,"date":"2023-02-04T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2023-02-04T20:39:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T20:39:22","slug":"india-u-s-discuss-narendra-modi-white-house-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/en\/india-u-s-discuss-narendra-modi-white-house-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"India, U.S. discuss Narendra Modi White House visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Trevor Hunnicutt<br><br>(Reuters) &#8211; The Biden administration is in talks with Indian officials over a possible White House visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this year, according to a U.S. official aware of the discussions and another person briefed on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. President Joe Biden is eager to deepen ties with the world&#8217;s largest democracy as part of his bid to win what he has framed as a contest between free and autocratic societies, especially China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The White House and the Indian Embassy in Washington declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dates are not finalized, the sources said. Discussions about a possible White House visit intensified this week as Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met with his U.S. counterpart, Jake Sullivan, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the visit, the United States and India\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/us-india-partnership-targets-arms-ai-compete-with-china-2023-01-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched a partnership<\/a>\u00a0to deepen ties on military equipment, semiconductors and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi has frustrated Washington by participating in military exercises with Russia and increasing purchases of the country&#8217;s crude oil, a key source of funding for the war in Ukraine. Washington has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/india\/yellen-india-ending-russias-war-ukraine-is-moral-imperative-2022-11-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushing New Delhi<\/a>&nbsp;to do more to punish Russia for the Ukraine invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India proposed on Wednesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/india\/india-raises-defence-budget-726-bln-amid-tensions-with-china-2023-02-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hiking military spending<\/a>\u00a0for the upcoming year by 13% to $72.6 billion as it seeks to add more fighter jets and roads along its tense border with China. India and China share a 2,100-mile (3,400-kilometer) frontier that has been disputed since the 1950s.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. president is expected to make his own trip to New Delhi in September for the G20 meetings hosted by India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden is also expected to meet with Modi during a mid-year meeting of the Quad countries, which is hosted by Australia and also includes Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those countries, along with South Korea, are key to Biden&#8217;s strategy of strengthening regional alliances and shoring up Asian security in the face of threats including China&#8217;s claims of Taiwan and vast swathes of the South China Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President George W. Bush&#8217;s administration in 2005 denied Modi a U.S. visa after a 2002 incident where more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in sectarian riots in the Indian state of Gujarat, where he had been chief minister. Modi denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was first invited to the White House after he became prime minister in 2014 by Barack Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modi&#8217;s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/india\/modis-party-set-landslide-election-win-indias-gujarat-state-2022-12-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">record-breaking victory<\/a>&nbsp;in his home state Gujarat in December and is widely expected to win the next general election in 2024.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Trevor Hunnicutt(Reuters) &#8211; The Biden administration is in talks with Indian officials over a possible White House visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this year, according to a U.S. official aware of the discussions and another person briefed on the matter. 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