00:00Foreign Minister Jaishankar, it is said that certainly we know Prime Minister Modi
00:05had a very close relationship with President Trump in his first term.
00:09We know that the Biden administration also, in fact, they were trying to hopefully
00:13drive a wedge or attract you from China and into the U.S. sphere more.
00:19But President-elect Trump...
00:22We were trying to attract them into the Indian sphere.
00:24Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I don't know how it worked out,
00:26but right now you've got a whole threat of tariffs in the whole region
00:30and all the rest of it. President-elect Trump has also threatened BRICS,
00:35of which you are a member, with 100% tariffs if this and that.
00:39What do you expect for India and for your economy and your relationship
00:44with the United States and, you know, regional implications as well
00:50from that kind of message already from President Trump-elect?
00:56Look, we had a good relationship, a very solid relationship
01:04with the first Trump administration.
01:07Yes, there were some issues, mostly trade-related issues,
01:11but there were a whole lot of issues on which actually President Trump
01:16was very international, he was very forward-leaning.
01:20And I remind people that it was actually under Trump that the Quad was restarted.
01:25So if you look at the Indo-Pacific today, I mean, certainly President Biden built on it,
01:30but if you look at the Indo-Pacific today, in fact, it's an area
01:35where the United States made new commitments, as indeed did all of us.
01:40So I would say from our perspective, quite honestly, I mean, you know,
01:49there's a certain personal relationship between Prime Minister Modi and President Trump.
01:54I would say in terms of politics, we don't really have divisive issues
01:59in terms of our political outlook.
02:03As two countries, by and large, I think our convergences way,
02:08way outstrip any differences we have.
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