{"id":3903,"date":"2020-02-25T20:29:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2020-02-25T20:29:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:29:42","slug":"trump-hails-special-ties-with-modi-but-complains-of-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2020\/02\/25\/trump-hails-special-ties-with-modi-but-complains-of-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Hails \u2018Special\u2019 Ties With Modi, but Complains of Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW DELHI \u2014 President Trump said on Tuesday that he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India had made progress toward what he hopes will be a landmark trade agreement between the two economic giants. But there was no breakthrough to announce after formal talks on the second and final day of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/24\/world\/asia\/trump-india.html\">the president\u2019s visit<\/a>, as Mr. Trump complained about steep Indian tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A joint public appearance by the two leaders was long on florid language about the strength of their relationship and short on concrete results. While Mr. Trump had said before departing the United States that \u201cwe may make a tremendous deal there,\u201d the two sides appeared far apart on major points of a trade pact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur teams have made tremendous progress on a comprehensive trade agreement, and I\u2019m optimistic we can reach a deal that will be of great importance to both countries,\u201d Mr. Trump told reporters, without elaborating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at a news conference a few hours later, he diverged from the sunny rhetoric that had characterized his appearances with Mr. Modi over the past two days, saying that India maintained unfairly high tariffs on American goods, including Harley Davidson motorcycles.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI \u2014 President Trump said on Tuesday that he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India had made progress toward what he hopes will be a landmark trade agreement between the two economic giants. But there was no breakthrough to announce after formal talks on the second and final day of the president\u2019s visit, as Mr. Trump complained about&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2020\/02\/25\/trump-hails-special-ties-with-modi-but-complains-of-tariffs\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3904,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}