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It may be too early to predict whether PM Narendra Modi’s visit to China, the first in seven years, marks a real shift or just a warning shot to Washington.
At the Capitol in January, India’s foreign minister was seated in the front row for President Donald
Trump
’s inauguration, a sign of the deepening ties that a generation of American presidents have attempted to forge with the world’s most populous nation.
Now, just months later, Trump is publicly lamenting that India has abandoned him for the embrace of China, Washington’s strategic rival.