: Modi-Biden summit: Read to know on what Biden will ask from India #IndiaNEWS #Feature When US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sit down for their first-ever personal meeting,

Modi-Biden summit: Read to know on what Biden will ask from India #IndiaNEWS #Feature
When US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sit down for their first-ever personal meeting, and bilateral, at the White House on Friday, the meeting will be historic in true meaning of the word historic. This is Year Zero of the Post-Covid Era, and a new world order is in throes of taking birth.
It is but obvious that aides of both leaders would have drawn up a very tight-knit agenda for the discussion, and the topics to be covered in the 50 or so minutes at their disposal. These topics of discussion can be organized in a 5-cornered pentagon, as below:
(1) What each wants to extract from the other, and persuades the other as a mutual win-win.
(2) What compromise each wants from the other, in recognition of the special needs it has.
(3) Some exchange of favours on some issues with rain-check to be cashed in future.
(4) To resolve, papering over of irritants, contentious issues in bilateral US-India relations.
(5) To identify areas of cooperation for regional and global affairs, for mutual win-win.
Having organised the above pentagon framework of the Biden-Modi meeting, we can now proceed to drill down and analyse the specifics of each of the five corners.
In this column, your author focuses only half of the equation i. e. only on what the United States, as represented by President Biden, may want or desire from India. The second half of the equation, i. e. what India wants from the US, will be subject of a subsequent column.
Thus, below listed, are some of the key asks that President Biden will ask of PM Modi.
1. More defence purchases by India: The bottom-line that helps the US economy and jobs in America is the export of defence goods. Any leader wants exports, job-creation.
2. What is the muscle that India will contribute to the QUAD? Biden needs to calculate his strengths, and of allies, before a Biden-Xi summit, due soon. So that when he walks into the meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he knows what assets and force-vectors he can marshal. What and how can India add to the heft for the US, Biden, when he negotiates with Xi?
3. Resilient supply-chains, and Standards: How will India improve its attractiveness for US, Japanese, and other companies that could re-locate from China? Specifically, with focus on manufacturing of semi-conductor chips, pharmaceuticals, and automobiles.
4. Covid Cooperation: How will India help the US in its global mission re Covid-19? What will India contribute to help the global aims and commitments re Covid-19?
5. Climate change and Green Energy: How will India contribute to US and global targets for climate change, and clean energy? Green energy? Progress to Hydrogen energy?
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