New Delhi:
Congress chief Shashi Thaoor, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Exterior Affairs, instructed NDTV as we speak Donald Trump is a well-known politician who India has engaged with earlier than, and so the Trump 2.0 administration should have no surprises for India.
In a brief dialog with NDTV, the diplomat-turned-politician from Kerala defined briefly the areas that India already understands about Mr Trump’s type of working, and the way India can preserve these in thoughts whereas partaking with him once more.
“We all know him very effectively. He has already been president for 4 years. I do not suppose there might be any shock as to what sort of politics he’ll do. He is a transactional politician, ‘what are you able to do for me, and what can I do for you’ sort of chief,” Mr Tharoor, the Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, instructed NDTV.
“He is very powerful on commerce. If we apply tariffs on American items coming to India, he’d say the US would additionally apply excessive tariffs on Indian items. This isn’t good for our corporations which can be exporting to America,” Mr Tharoor stated.
“There may very well be difficulties in immigration points. He has a really robust stand on immigration. If a few of our individuals who have gone to the US wish to take their households, and there is a scarcity of visas, they might face issues,” he stated.
Mr Tharoor referred to as for a balanced strategy to China, contemplating the powerful stand the US takes on the Asian large’s rise.
“In safety issues, he would not like China in any respect. The US taking a tricky stand on China is in our curiosity. However the whole lot wants a steadiness. We have now recognized Trump for some years. As I stated, there aren’t any surprises. We will interact with him, maintaining this stuff in thoughts,” Mr Tharoor stated.
Mr Trump claimed a “magnificent” victory as we speak over Kamala Harris within the combat for the presidency as outcomes put him on the verge of one of the beautiful comebacks in US political historical past.
The Republican former president’s tackle to a crowd of jubilant supporters got here although solely Fox Information had to date declared him the winner of the presidential election.
World leaders rushed to congratulate him earlier than the ultimate outcomes had been in, with Ukraine’s president particularly urging Mr Trump to assist obtain a “simply peace” towards Russia.