Idealism and pragmatism have long made rival claims on American foreign policy, forcing hard choices and sometimes leading to disappointment. There was a moment in the 1990s when the collapse of the Soviet Union looked to clear the way for a universal political and economic order, but that chimera soon gave way to the more …
WASHINGTON, June 21 (Reuters) – Rights advocates in Washington demanded that President Joe Biden publicly call out what they described as India’s deteriorating human rights record, saying the U.S. approach of raising the issue in private with Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been a failure. In a press briefing on Wednesday, activists and academics also called …
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Once banned from the U.S., Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is arriving in Washington, D.C., to a diaspora whose support is two-thirds of what it is back home. Many South Asian Americans have mixed feelings as they prepare themselves for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the White House this week. As some get ready to …
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WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) – Dozens of U.S. President Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats urged him on Tuesday to raise human rights issues with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Washington this week, according to a letter sent to Biden. Modi left for Washington on Tuesday for a visit projected as a milestone in ties …
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India’s prime minister will attend a state dinner at the White House this week as the two countries seek greater ties. The administration of President Joe Biden is preparing to host a state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week, paying little mind to critics who say the United States is turning a blind eye …
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World leaders should hold each other to account rather than ‘sweep human rights issues in their respective nations under the rug’ Narendra Modi and Joe Biden must address grave human rights issues in both their nations, Amnesty International has said as India’s prime minister heads to the United States. Under Modi, India has borne witness to “increasing violence against religious …
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Narendra Modi was once shunned by the U.S. In 2005, the then-chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat was denied a diplomatic visa amid accusations he tacitly supported Hindu mobs during communal violence three years earlier that left more than a thousand people, most of them Muslim, dead. But he is shunned no more. On June …
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It has taken a back seat to great-power competition. And this week at the White House, guess who’s coming to dinner? As president, Donald Trump made no secret of his admiration for repressive rulers around the world. Joe Biden campaigned on a promise to change that. He regularly criticized Donald Trump’s silence about repressive regimes and promised …
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India’s prime minister will lead a yoga session at the UN as part of a carefully curated PR campaign to project himself as a wise elder, rather than a supremacist authoritarian On Wednesday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to arrive in New York City for a historic state visit to the United States. His visit will commence with the most …
India’s democracy is in danger. There is no sound moral, political or economic case for President Biden and other democratic leaders to pretend this isn’t happening.
