The contours of the ameriki end game in afpak may just be beginning to unfold.ldev wrote:What Trump really spoke about to Modi and Imran Khan
US President Donald Trump’s phone calls to prime ministers Narendra Modi and Imran Khan Monday were less about India-Pakistan tensions over Kashmir and more about his country’s exit from Afghanistan and trade with New Delhi, sources told ThePrint.However, according to sources, his call to Khan was focused on ensuring that Pakistan does not divert its attention from the Afghanistan peace process, as Islamabad has hinted in the wake of India’s decision to strip Kashmir of its special status.
The call to Modi, meanwhile, was meant to convince India to hammer out a substantial trade package for the benefit of American firms and farmers, the sources added.According to a statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs after the Trump-Modi call, the PM “expressed the hope” that Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will meet US trade representative Robert Lighthizer “at an early date to discuss bilateral trade prospects for mutual benefit”.
With the US not being able to make much headway in hammering out a trade deal with China, the Trump administration is now focusing more heavily on India to get tariff-free access for its agricultural goods and medical devices.
This, despite Washington’s grievances with New Delhi over data localisation issues that are impacting the operations of American conglomerates.
According to sources, Trump wants India to cough up a substantial trade deal before he heads for the 2020 presidential elections.
“Any trade deal with the US will require substantial give-and-take,” Shankar said. “Trump is not able to make a deal with China, so his focus is on India now.”
with his repeated threats of "mediation", trump may be trying to herd us into putting down boots on the ground in afghanistan starting in the medium term to support the US withdrawal and disengagement.
there is no upside to India joining any new ameriki coalition which the pentagon as well as the SD have been trying very hard to get us to do since before the iraq war.
India and other countries must fight terrorists in Afghanistan at some point, says Donald Trump
"All of these countries are going to have to fight them because do we want to stay there for another 19 years? I don't think so. So, at a certain point, other countries and that includes Russia and it includes Iran and Turkey and Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan and India,” he said.India and other countries must fight terrorists in Afghanistan at some point, says Donald Trump
Aug 22, 2019
Countries like India, Iran, Russia and Turkey would have to fight against terrorists in Afghanistan at some point of time, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday
Trump said that other nations currently are making fewer efforts against the terrorists in Afghanistan
Trump's comments came a day after he indicated that the US forces will not completely withdraw from the war-torn Afghanistan
Washington: Countries like India, Iran, Russia and Turkey would have to fight against terrorists in Afghanistan at some point of time, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, ruling that the job against terrorist is being done only by the United States some 7,000 miles away.
Trump said that other nations currently are making fewer efforts against the terrorists in Afghanistan.
India and other countries must fight terrorists in Afghanistan at some point, says Donald Trump
"At a certain point Russia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey they are going to have to fight their battles too. We wiped out the caliphate 100 per cent. I did it in record time but at a certain point all of these other countries where ISIS is around they have been decimated, by the way, badly decimated,” Trump told reporters at the White House while responding to a question on the reemergence of ISIS in Afghanistan.