President Trump and First Lady Melania
Announce Trip to India Feb 24th-25th…
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Posted By: earlybird,
2/11/2020 1:25:37 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi form a trilateral group within President Trump’s Indo-Pacific economic strategy. Essentially a geopolitical alliance based on economic interests.
PM Abe and PM Modi have visited the U.S. several times since the alliance was formed. President Trump has also visited Japan several times but not visited India. (There has been a sticky issue with Modi’s protectionist trade tariffs.) However, today the White House announced President Trump & First Lady Melania will be traveling to India:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 2/11/2020 1:45:41 PM (No. 315111)
India is an interesting place to visit, a bizarre mixture of the 21st century and the 14th all rolled into one.
India should be a US ally, and we really need to work on that. Unfortunately, there is a lot of leftism in India, and their hand-me-down British infrastructure is starting to crumble, and in many places they are not taking care of it. Lots of smart Indians, but they also have a lot of really primitive rural people who live no much changed from the 14th century. I saw a farmer wearing only a white loincloth and white turban plowing with two oxen, wooden yoke and entirely wooden plow. Unchanged for 600 years or more. And yet, their elevated trains in Delhi are as modern as tomorrow. Quite an interesting place, although the smells can be hideous at times.
Trump is very smart to be working on bringing them on as allies. India could be a powerful counterweight to China in the region, and a keystone of a new counter-Chinese alliance in the region with perhaps Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Malasia and more.
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I can only confirm the observations of #1. And also note that India is an incredibly diverse place, where the common language is English because there are some two dozen different languages otherwise spoken. I have never experienced anything but friendliness and respect on my visits. Republicans in many areas with growing Asian/Indian populations are missing a growth opportunity by not connecting with these communities.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MeiDei 2/11/2020 2:21:59 PM (No. 315146)
Looking forward to photos of them at the Taj Mahal. Mrs. T would look lovely in a sari inspired garment.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 2/11/2020 2:54:37 PM (No. 315184)
#2, added some good points, especially the friendliness of all that I met towards Americans. The point of "some two dozen languages...." while certainly true, actually significantly understates the situation.
I had an opportunity to spend a couple of fairly boring 24 hr days with an Indian-American engineer working on an extended supercomputer performance test. One of the many topics we chatted about over two 24 hour periods with only separate naps and joint meals was India. He volunteered that India owed much to the British for three things, the university system, the railroad system and the English language. He explained each at some length, me learning - this was before I had visited India. He stated that there were over 200 separate languages in India. I was taken aback, and asked if this included dialect variations, and he insisted that these were languages so different that villagers who lived within 20 kilometers of each other could not understand each other except when they each spoke English. He said that English had pulled the country together, and allowed many very diverse peoples, different cultures, different religions and different languages to have a common tongue, to feel like a country. The RR permitted their very poor people to travel (and I saw this first hand, it appears that in the 'cattle cars' portion of the trains, tickets are optional) and for their goods and raw materials to be transported cheaply, since their roads are very poor. And the engineer I worked with was a product of their university system, with an advanced degree here. He was a real asset to the country as an immigrant, proof that they have a workable university system.
India should be a close US ally, Trump is smart enough to see this and work on it, unlike most of the previous Presidents who were interested in China which is a bone-deep enemy, and helping China become wealthy has done nothing but arm our enemy with more modern weapons.
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I wonder if they'll check with Junior Trudeau for tips on what to wear.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 2/11/2020 3:29:07 PM (No. 315217)
Well that means that the democrat media will roll out a perceived scandal on the 23rd to try to suck up all of the oxygen in the media during Trump's visit. They have every time so far.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Island Life 2/11/2020 5:39:41 PM (No. 315313)
Totally off-point, Melania looks lovely in that sunshine yellow patterned dress.
{spoiler alert} Now imagine the First Mooch in that dress. It would look awful.
Sorry.
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