{"id":32795,"date":"2023-06-21T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=32795"},"modified":"2023-06-21T03:05:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T03:05:10","slug":"modi-in-us-why-washington-is-rolling-out-the-red-carpet-for-indian-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=32795","title":{"rendered":"Modi in US: Why Washington is rolling out the red carpet for Indian PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s visit to the US has assumed huge significance amid global economic and geopolitical headwinds.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House is pulling out all the stops to welcome Mr Modi &#8211; it&#8217;s a state visit, the highest level of diplomatic protocol the US accords to visiting leaders. Mr Modi will be given a ceremonial welcome at the White House on Thursday before he holds direct talks with President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then there is the state dinner, a meeting with CEOs, an address to the joint session of the Congress and speeches to Indian-Americans, which have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-49788492\">highlights of Mr Modi&#8217;s past US visits<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But behind the carefully crafted ceremonies lie discussions that have the potential to not only infuse new energy into India-US relations but also have an impact on the global order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Indo-Pacific is where the US possibly needs India&#8217;s influence more than anywhere else right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US has long viewed India as a counterbalance to China&#8217;s growing influence in the region, but Delhi has never been fully comfortable with owning the tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It may still be reluctant to do so but China continues to be one of the main catalysts driving India-US relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s visit to the US has assumed huge significance amid global economic and geopolitical headwinds. The White House is pulling out all the stops to welcome Mr Modi &#8211; it&#8217;s a state visit, the highest level of diplomatic protocol the US accords to visiting leaders. Mr Modi will be given a ceremonial welcome at the White House on Thursday before he holds direct talks with President Joe Biden. Then there is the state dinner, a meeting with CEOs, an address to the joint session of the Congress and speeches to Indian-Americans, which have been&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32797,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32795\/revisions\/32797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}