(8) Foreign Policy - A Comparative Analysis
The 2 Ongoing Wars:
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| Massive destruction caused by the Russian invasion on Ukraine. |
Biden-Harris team's "No Compromise with US Enemies policy" has led to 2 unwanted wars in the last 3 years. There was no war when Trump was President. Was there any? Putin, the ever-energetic and highly bullish, outrageous, and outlaw-type Russian President, was somehow tamed and made to remain silent by Trump. It was the result of Trump’s prudent strategy that Putin remained like a caged wild animal in front of him. If Trump was there in the White House even after 2021 (that is if he had won the 2020 Presidential Election), Russia definitely wouldn't have attacked Ukraine, the way it did on 24th of February 2022. The Ukraine-Russia war, which has claimed the lives of thousands of innocent Ukrainians and hundreds of Russians, would have never been there at all!! Putin, with all his ambitions of Russian territorial expansions, would have still remained silent. Biden-Harris have been providing so much aid to Ukraine in the last 2 years. This amounts to billions of dollars. Whose money is that, after all? Lest you forget it's the extremely hard-earned money of our American taxpayers -- masons, carpenters, crane operators, farmers, truck drivers, trolley drivers, and a whole lot - these Americans work blood and sweat to make their ends meet and still pay their share of taxes to the government. Then what did Biden-Harris do to all that money? Instead of thinking about their well-being, in terms of cheaper items of daily use, they simply gave away billions of those dollars to a foreign country??? What a shame!!!
Just because they are the topmost administrative leaders of this country, Biden-Harris thought they could just give away our money to anybody just like that? This is totally unfair, and they should be stopped. Why are they doing this after all? Just to keep Putin away? Just to make themselves feel that Ukraine is not alone in the senseless Russia-Ukraine war, and the US has its back? What is the guarantee that Ukraine will not turn away from the US after a few years, and stab it in the back??
Aren't NATO allies of the United States like Germany, not stabbing it in the back too? They are supposed to pay a regular amount to us for the protection they are receiving from us, against the constant threat of a Russian attack. But they have not paid their dues for a long time. These unpaid amounts/dues aggregate to millions of dollars. Why is the Biden-Harris team silent on this? Why are they not questioning Germany about their behavior that resembles to a bankrupt irresponsible citizen in front of us, when it comes to these dues? What is it that our country, with all our might, should be scared of Germany just drifting away from us? Under the garb of being an ally, Germany was receiving huge amounts of Natural Gas (110 billion cubic meters per year) from Russia via its Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines passing from the Baltic region. It continued doing so, till Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022! Guys, now this goes beyond common sense. On one hand, it pretends to be under threat from Russia and receives military support from the US by being a NATO ally. Whereas on the other hand, it was receiving huge amounts of energy inflows from the same country, against which it was asking for military support from the US!?!! Even a 5-year-old can judge what's going on here. Germany was fooling around with the US. How can it say that it was under any threat from Russia, when it was receiving so much oil from it? Do enemies continue doing business with each other? Or do two enemies first have some business done and then start fighting once again? How ridiculous is that? Germany shouldn't have entered into any kind of business with Russia at all, if it really was considering them as a threat to Germany's sovereignty and territorial integrity. This could have been a much more rational argument for them on any international platform. The other option was they should have completely left NATO, if they wanted Natural Gas from Russia. That would again be understandable. But it's a total hypocrisy on the part of Germany to carry on with both the things simultaneously, viz. continue being a NATO ally of the US, and also keep receiving vast amounts of energy from Russia at the same time!! All this drama in Germany started when Barack Obama was the President of the US. I wonder why the Obama Administration failed to ask Germany about these double standards, and ordered it to immediately shut down all its trade with a country, that is the enemy number 1 of NATO!!! After all, what was it that prevented President Obama from asking this tough question to the then German Chancellor Angela Merkel?
However, Donald Trump did not waste any time in asking this question to Germany as soon as he announced that he was running for the President's office in June 2015. He bluntly and publicly said that the Obama Administration must make Germany pay all its dues as a NATO ally, failing which NATO should end its military assistance of all kinds, which it gives to Germany. Some consider this point as an irrational and hasty argument from Trump. In support, they say that it's not good in America's interests to antagonize old allies. Really? Then, what does this mean? Has America become so weak that it can not tell the truth, because it fears the end of an alliance?? After all, if Germany pays its huge dues to NATO whom would it favor? NATO, of course. If NATO gets more money, it will become richer and more powerful. It will have better capacity to buy more weapons, artillery, and other military equipment. That also means that America will have to put lesser finances into it and thus ultimately this will save the all-important millions of dollars, the money from American taxpayers’ pockets from getting wasted. So, if an American leader loves his country, he will not think twice about losing a foreign country's alliance, in case if the money from American taxpayers’ pocket his is at stake. He would just let that country go away, if it wants to, from NATO and make it realize the fact that it is they who need America more, rather than the other way around. Trump kept on acting on these lines during his 4 years in the White House. He did ask Germany to pay the dues to NATO, which it has not been paying for a long time. Obviously, Merkel, the then German Chancellor did not like this new demand from an American President. So, she too started disliking Trump, just like some other leaders from Europe.
The same argument goes with the massive aid the Biden-Harris Administration is giving to Ukraine. Just before 4 months it authorized a bill inside the Senate which allowed a new military aid worth $ 60 Billion Dollars to Ukraine. Biden-Harris have been passing on these billions of dollars to Ukraine, as if that foreign country is a part of the territory of the United States! They are acting as if they are trying to save some US territory from a Russian invasion! Some people on social media call President Zelensky of Ukraine - "Biden's third son" (after Hunter and Beau) looking at the manner in which Biden is worried about Ukraine. Should he be so worried about Ukraine? I guess NO. Aren't there enough problems inside our country, that need much more priority, and much more focus from him, rather than defending Ukraine?
As said earlier, had Trump been at the helm of affairs in 2022, this whole senseless Russia-Ukraine war wouldn't have just occurred at all. Neither so many innocents would have got killed inside Ukraine and Russia, nor so many billions of American dollars would have been wasted so badly. It's all due to Biden-Harris's weak foreign policies. It's their fault. They have failed to present an aggressive American stance, which Trump was able to do.
Vladimir Putin, Xi Jin Ping, and Iran’s leader do think that the Biden-Harris team is a weak combination. For a given brief period of time, a nation is known by its current leaders, and its strength is known by the posture taken by those particular current leaders. Not only is Biden a physically weak person but also that he fails to present a powerful image of a strong America in the eyes of its foes. After all, how can a man who keeps stumbling down here and there, in public life, present a powerful picture? This physical weakness of Biden has affected the combined image of the Biden-Harris team. Putin, who is a Judo fighter himself and still practices Judo as a sport regularly, must be mocking Biden whilst sitting with his Generals. How can such a physically weak man present himself in a rugged manner in front of America's enemies, so as to make a shiver run down their spines when they think of damaging US interests somewhere??
Clearly, Putin was not thinking about carrying out any attack on Ukraine until the time Trump was inside the White House. As a personal friend, he couldn't afford to make Donald feel annoyed. Neither could he afford the aggression of the US forces, if a war broke out between the US and Russia. He was made to think like that because of the manner in which a strong man like Trump used to carry himself everywhere - with total physical and mental fitness. Trump used to speak in a manner that sounded very confident to Americans and America's foes! Trump's body language was not so intimidating, but still it did have that spark, that flamboyances, that displayed enough energy and potent power to make the crooked Russian leader feel that it's better not to displease this guy, lest he may ask his men to throw bombs on Moscow. Without Trump uttering a single word about possible Putin could understand the underlying message given indirectly by Trump. His aura was such.
But once he was gone, who replaced him? A man who kept on falling down publicly and shamelessly, here and there -- sometimes on stage, sometimes from a bicycle, sometimes while climbing the stairs of Airforce 1. Putin must have seen all those video clips and concluded -- "If Biden is so weak, so is America right now. Let me just attack Ukraine, whilst threatening NATO that any counterattack from the alliance will directly lead to an all-out NUCLEAR WAR between Russia and NATO countries, including America. I will drop atom bombs on New York, Berlin, Paris, etc."
Surprisingly and rather unfortunately, this intimidation strategy from Putin worked!! NATO just DID NOT retaliate back to the Russian invasion in the early days of its invasion of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Just imagine the scenario - on one hand, a country that was yearning to become a NATO member was being mercilessly attacked. Yet, NATO was so helpless that it could not retaliate with a counterattack, just because of a weird threat of a Nuclear Attack from Russia! How did America become so weak all of a sudden, just within 13 months of Trump leaving the White House? Because the Biden-Harris team lacked the mental fortitude that Donald Trump had.
In a hypothetical situation had Putin attacked Ukraine, even when Trump was President, he would have definitely counter-attacked, regardless of the lame threats of an all-out NUCLEAR WAR by Putin. Trump would have categorically told Putin that "If Russia has Nuclear weapons, so does America. If Americans will be killed in thousands, Russians will get killed in tens of thousands. I will see to it that for each, and every American killed, there are at least 10 Russians killed, Mr. Putin....Am coming for you now .... You are going to die an ugly death, just like Adolf Hitler...your days are over...." After listening to these kind words from the Commander-in-Chief of a formidable opponent, Putin would have understood what to do next. He would have quietly withdrawn all his forces from Ukraine and from Belarus. This bloody and inexplicable war would have ended in just a few hours, instead of stretching on and on for more than 2 years now.
The Second war that the world is witnessing right now is the one that is going on between Israel and Palestine's armed group Hamas, inside Gaza, a part of Palestine. This is also due to Biden-Harris. It is their second mistake in a row. Had Trump been inside the White House, even this war would not have ever happened at all.
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| Buildings turn into rubble inside Rafah, Gaza after constant aerial attacks from Israeli forces in October '23. |
Let's just go through the chain of events that has caused this conflict to happen: On October 7th, 2023 (coincidentally the birthday of Vladimir Putin) Hamas, the fighting unit of the Palestinian government, provoked Israel in the worst possible manner, when Hamas fighters entered Israel and butchered around 1500 innocent Israelites, mostly women and children. Clearly, there were massive and widespread repercussions to this on an international level. A few hours later, Israel launched an extremely heavy air attack on Gaza City, the capital of the deemed nation of Palestine. Hamas fighters counter-attacked. From that day until today (July 29, 2024) this war has been going on and on. It is about 10 months now but there are no signs of it getting over. The IDF (Israel Defense Force) has already killed more than 38,000 Palestinians in these 10 months. People inside Rafah, a part of Gaza, are still starving for food. They still do not have clean water to drink. The medical supplies are scarce. Gaza strip looks like "a ghost town" with all the crumbled buildings everywhere. With such a total lack of clean water and food, there is still a huge possibility of the outbreak of an epidemic as per WHO (World Health Organization) officials in the entire region of Gaza, which has a population of around 2.5 million. If this war goes on and on like this, it's believed that the figure of 38,000 deaths will go up to 60,000 in the next 1 year. So, who is to be blamed for such a disastrous war? Again, it is because of the mis-management of the Biden-Harris team. Here is why:
Being the most powerful leaders in the world, Biden--Harris could have just asked Israel to stop the ruthless killings after some time, instead of the continued massacres that it has been inflicting upon the Palestinians for 10 months now. They could have told the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "Look, they killed your 1500. Now you have already killed their 3000. It is time for you to stop. Be a human being. Do not be a killing machine. After all, you are not a wild animal. Follow what is being said in the Torah (the Jewish scriptures) that it is okay to punish the guilty, but it is not okay to conduct the genocide of the guilty and everyone related to those who are guilty. If Hamas was guilty, I think you have already killed hundreds of Hamas leaders by now. But right now you are killing innocents - small children and women. You have no right to do so. You have already killed 2 Palestinians for every Israeli killed. Now stop this killing immediately. This thirst for Palestinian blood is monstrous. I will not allow this genocide to happen any longer now." Such strict warnings from topmost American leaders would have been enough for Netanyahu to order the withdrawal of all his forces from Palestinian territory. But Biden-Harris did not just do that! During his latest visit to the US, Prime Minister Netanyahu did meet Kamala Harris too and she did say a few hard words to him about the dire situation caused by Israeli forces in Gaza. But a couple of mediocre sentences are not enough to end such a bloody war. She should have been much more strong in her words addressed to Netanyahu.
It's so awful that Joe Biden did not ask Netanyahu to put an immediate end on this war. Had Trump been there in his place, he would have surely asked Netanyahu to do it in a very short time after the IDF offensive against Hamas. This would have saved at least 35,000 innocent Palestinian lives and also prevented the huge infrastructural damage inflicted upon by Israel's air strikes on the Palestinians in Gaza, amounting to millions of dollars. After all each life is important. What if Palestinians are Muslims? Trump could have still saved them.
In short, the weak foreign policy of the Biden-Harris administration has caused a loss of billions of dollars to the American economy and led to 2 entirely unnecessary wars, killing tens of thousands in the last 2+ years. A Trump presidency would not have allowed that to happen at all.
Foreign policy on China:
In the last 4 decades, China has grown in its financial and military strength by leaps and bounds. During the 1970s it was a poor nation striving to feed its citizens. But since 1985, its new economic policies, that prioritised liberalisation and gave a lot of impetus to the generation of foreign exchange through enhancement of exports have led to a massive turn around in its fortunes, so much so that now it's competing with the United States in several key business areas and has the 2nd largest
economy in the world! Under these circumstances, it is the second biggest threat to the US (after Russia) in ways more than one.
For a country like the US, it's impossible to look at China with a liberal eye any more. Trump was doing exactly that. His business policies, when it came to China, were very strict. He had applied so many sanctions on China - on its goods and services through heavy tariffs. Chin and its topmost leader Xi Jin Ping didn't Iike Trump at all. But why should he get worried about the Chinese? He kept on applying heavy tariffs on Chinese exports to the US throughout his term as the President. The Chinese retaliated in the same manner and that led to a mini Trade War between the US and China during those Trump years. Although China did not like Trump, back home the MAGA people loved him for his aggressive stance on China. It was a massive change from those Obama years when America was tolerating the business irregularities of China, wherein despite it charging heavy tariffs on Chinese goods, the American companies did not reciprocate likewise. Once Trump came to the White House, he asked these American Multinationals to behave in a Tit for Tat manner. Once they did, the Chinese realized how to behave with American companies and began lowering their tariffs on American exported items!
Contrary to this, the Biden-Harris administration has been lenient towards the Chinese. They removed the high tariffs applied by Trump on certain Chinese goods. This led to an increase in Chinese exports to the United States and a decrease in US exports to China vis-a-vis. The Chinese government again started behaving in an unfair manner with the American corporates by imposing new higher tariffs on their goods. Whatever good was done by the Trump administration got washed out. It was reversed back unfortunately and China again started dominating the Sino-American trade!!
The Biden-Harris administration have also committed a huge mistake by allowing Chinese Communist Party CCP to buy hundreds of acres of farm-land in the different states of the United States. According to an estimate, China has already bought 384,000 acres of US farmland. Trump would never have allowed that to happen under his nose. Afterall no nationalist leaders around the world, would allow foreigners to grab their land.
Foreign policy on Russia:
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As discussed above Trump behaved like a clever merchant with Putin, the dictator leader of Russia. He did not antagonize him neither did he befriend him. Whenever he met Putin it was with a positive vibe. Putin liked that vibe and so both became good friends! Although they belonged to 2 such nations, that considered each other as enemies, the rapport they developed was indeed remarkable! The Democratic party leaders were shocked by this kind of rapport between Trump and Putin. They started blaming Trump of becoming additionally and unnecessarily good towards Putin, who never wishes good for the Americans. According to them the policy of being neutral and thus being aloof from Putin which was adopted by Barack Obama, the predecessor of Trump, was much better. They even mocked at and ridiculed Trump, calling him as behaving like "a clown" whenever he met Putin. But Trump very well knew what he was doing. He knew how big a threat Russia can be to the US. So he was playing the game of "If I am a rabbit, you must also become a rabbit!" with the Russian macho guy, and surprisingly it was working very well! Russia never engaged in any conflict that NATO didn't like during the Trump years (2017-2021). Only after Trump had left the White House did Russia attack Ukraine. In short, Trump's foreign policy with Russia was very good and it brought good results.
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| Biden, falling down on stage. |
Contrary to that, the policy on Russia of the Biden-Harris administration has been pathetic. Just in the beginning of his term as President, Joe Biden called him by abusive adjectives such as "a mad dictator", "a monster" etc. Obviously Putin must not have liked any of those. After that he allowed Putin to watch on TV how weak he was - physically as well as mentally. Putin came to know then, that the new leader of the enemy camp is very weak and hence he decided to go ahead with his plan of attacking Ukraine, the one which he had postponed or maybe cancelled when Trump was the President. This is because he knew very well, about the way in which Biden thinks. He knew that Biden doesn't have the courage to accept his challenge and if in case he starts talking about a Russian nuclear attack on the US or any of its NATO allies, Biden would just not talk about any further aggression and would just start behaving like a fragile sheep in front of a lion. So he went ahead with his pan of attacking Ukraine. He started accumulating huge quantities of Russian soldiers near the Russian border with Ukraine in November 2021. Finally, he launched a very heavy attack on Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. Meanwhile he issued a stern warning to the US that if NATO countries tried to respond to this attack, he will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons against any of them. Cities like NewYork, Berlin, Paris, etc. can be destroyed in no big time. This warning was enough for Biden to adopt a very defensive posture!! He totally surrendered to this verbal threat from the Russian dictator and asked the American as well as other NATO troops to remain silent, till further orders!! As a matter of fact, despite the ruthless killings of tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians in this bloody war, he has not yet gathered the courage to order NATO forces to attack Russia till today, as on July 31st, 2024!! Putin has destroyed a number of Ukrainian cities in the last 2 and a half years. This senseless war has massacred tens of thousands of humans on both sides, thousands of women have been raped and kidnapped, thousands of children have become orphans - yet it is not ending. It's all due to the extremely poor foreign policy on Russia of the Biden-Harris administration. Had Donald Trump been in power, this war would have just not occured at all, as he would've definitely tamed down the evil monster called Putin, by hook or crook.
Foreign Policy on the Middle East
Israel has been in conflict with Palestine for decades over the issue of palestinian territories being occupied by Israel. Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children have been killed on both sides because of this conflict, since 1948. Despite several attempts from world leaders, including Bill Clinton, the former US President, peace has not returned to this part of the world. When Trump became President in 2017, he tried his best for a solution to this big issue by regularly meeting leaders from both the sides. He met Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister and then Mohammad Abbas too, the nominated Prime Minister of the presumed state of Palestine. Apart from that he knew that if peace was to be maintained in this region, it was essential to see to it that Hamas, the controlling force of the people of Palestine, does not get enough weapons and finance, to carry out attacks on Israeli territories. He knew that if Iran gets weakened, Hamas will get weakened automatically because it was the Iranians who actually supplied the Hamas fighters with the required ammunition and money. So he saw to it that Iran doesn't have enough money to carry out such activities. In order to do that, he asked all the business partners of the US not to do any business with Iran. This also includes India, which, under the Modi regime strongly wanted to continue importing oil from Iran. Trump strongly appealed to Modi and thus India, to discontinue its oil imports from Iran, as it was, as a consequence giving a huge amount of foreign exchange (money) to that country. Once that happened in 2019, Iran got depleted from the requisite funds that it was using to finance the activities it was doing with the Palestinian fighters. In the absence of required ammunition and finance, these Hamas fighters were forced to sit silently!! There was no exchange of fire with Israel and peace prevailed during this time!! Thus, Trump's plan in the middle-east peace process was working.
But with the arrival of the Biden-Harris administration, they decided to support Iran once again. They tried to revive the Deal with Iran which was signed by President Obama in 2015. In their efforts to re-engage in a friendly manner with Iran, what Biden & Harris did was that they gave this terrorist country to restart all the evil things that Trump had stopped. Iran again started exporting oil to various countries including India and from the huge sums of money it received from this business, it manufactured arms & ammunition, which it finally sent to the Hamas tin Gaza, who were eagerly awaiting for those weapons. It also supplied them with huge sums of money to carry out attacks on Israeli territories. As a result of all these, these palestinian fighters launched a massive attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023. They killed approximately 1500 Israeli people in that gruesome attack, which mostly included women and children. Israel got very furious and replied this attack by a counter attack on the city of Gaza, the capital of the presumed state of Palestine, in just a few hours. It has not stopped ever since! As of today, July 31st, 2024 Israel has already killed more than 38,000 Palestinians in the ongoing war between the IDF (Israel Defence Force) and Hamas fighters. This war has gone on and on since last 10 months now with no end in sight so far. More than 40,000 lives have been sacrificed totally, including those killed inside Israel. Palestinian cities have turned into rubble. The world is on the edge of a World War. All these has happened due to the imprudent policies of the Biden-Harris administration. Had Trump been the President, this war too wouldn't have just taken place at all.
Foreign policy on Afghanistan:
When Trump was President, the Taliban were not in power in Afghanistan. An elected government was in place. Incidences of terrorism inside Kabul, its capital and other surrounding areas were much less. The central government was in control. Trump even visited Afghanistan in his private plane and met the Americans soldiers, serving over there on US duty. Everything was quite normal.
But with the arrival of Biden, things started falling apart. The Taliban again regrouped and started attacking the forces of the elected government. It began its march on towards the capital Kabul from the Northern areas of the country on August 6th, 2021 and finally took control of the government inside Kabul on August 15th, 2021. In other words, the elected government fell apart in Afghanistan and the non-elected forces of the Taliban started ruling over that country from that day onwards. The Taliban had given a deadline of August 15th to all the foreign military forces present inside Afghanistan to leave the country or face fierce fighting from them. While they were advancing towards the capital, they had already killed all the opponents including the government forces whosoever tried to stop them. They were fully loaded with arms and ammunitions which included tanks, guns and rocket launchers. The Afghan police force had already surrendered to this dangerous group of people known as the Afghan Taliban. The Biden administration in Washington DC was left with no other choice for the Americans soldiers stationed in Afghanistan but to run away. So Biden, being the commander in chief asked his forces to obey the deadline given by the notorious Taliban and ordered them to leave it as soon as possible. American soldiers started leaving as if they were helpless and hopeless. Although they were not defeated by the Taliban in real, the humiliation was such that they started feeling defeated and worn out. One by one in several batches they boarded flights and left the country like soldiers who had just lost an important war. Some of those soldiers became victims of mental illnesses like depression following this retreat. America was forced to leave US military equipment worth hundreds of millions of dollars right there in Afghanistan. It was a total disaster, a shameful humiliation that America had not faced since Vietnam war. For the enemies of the United States like Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi Jin Ping, it was an event to celebrate however!!
The million dollar question is wasn't this humiliation preventable? Had the Biden-Harris administration kept proper track of the regrouping activities of the Taliban in the northern part of Afghanistan in its early stage, it could have warned the central Afghan government in Kabul about this imminent danger. The American forces would then have teamed up with the Afghan Police and fought out a brave battle against the Taliban. Some of them might have got killed but they could have retained power of the elected government in Kabul and could have thus prevented the Talibani terrorists to rule the whole country once again & being asked to leave the country in the most humiliating manner. But because of the complacency of the Biden-Harris administration in Washington DC, this couldn't substantiate. The Taliban were able to seize power back from the elected government and also were able to scare the American soldiers away by warning them of a severe bloodbath. Never in the history of independent America, have the American soldiers been pushed out of any country in such a disgraceful manner. It was all due to the inefficient Biden-Harris administration.
As on today, the extremist Taliban government is still ruling in Afghanistan. The people of that country are still suffering from being ruled by an autocratic government which keeps murdering democracy on a daily basis. There is no education for females. There is no freedom of press. There is no cinema, no right to entertainment. It's a living hell in Afghanistan once again.
Foreign policy with India & Pakistan:
India and Pakistan are two important nations in South East Asia. Being mutual enemies, they keep having problems with each other. The US, which tries to establish peace and democracy globally has had different policies with both countries under the Trump administration and under Biden-Harris administration.
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| Former US President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Modi have "a wonderful chemistry"! |
Trump has a wonderful chemistry with Indian Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi. When Modi visited the US in 2019, both looked very friendly. They signed several bilateral agreements in the fields of energy, technology, construction, etc. Modi hailed him as the winner of the 2020 Presidential election right then! Trump was so happy that he promised to visit India next year and he did! In India he was greeted with a lot of warmth and enthusiasm by Indian crowds especially in the city of Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat. People flocked to see him in the Namaste Trump event at the Narendra Modi Stadium over there. In short, Trump's policy towards India was very cordial and mutually beneficial.
However, both leaders are nationalists. They love their country more than any other country on the planet. So when it came to bilateral business, Trump had a problem with Modi. He did not like the tariffs that Modi had imposed on American goods, imported from the US to India. He asked Modi government to remove it. But Modi didn't remove tariffs on all goods. He removed them partially. Trump then replied to this by imposing tariffs on imported Indian goods! When he thought of isolating Iran from carrying out trade activities with the whole world, he asked India to stop the import of Iranian oil completely. Having learnt a lesson in the tariff episode, this time Modi obeyed Trump and stopped the import of Iranian oil completely. Apart from the single tariff episode, the relations of the US under Trump administration, with India were good.
Trump did not agree with the then Pakistani Prime Minister Mr Imran Khan's claim that Modi had taken a very wrong step by removing the controversial articles 370 and 35-A from the state of Jammu & Kashmir on 5th August, 2019. He said that it was India's internal matter and neither the US nor any other country in the world, including Pakistan, should interfere in it. This statement of Trump was hailed very nicely by the people of India and criticized a lot by the people of Pakistan. Because of his anti-muslim manner of thinking Trump remained indifferent towards Pakistan in his 4 years as President. Neither did he pay any visit to that country nor any Pakistani leader pay any visit to the US in his time. The US business relations with Pakistan however continued as usual. In short, the US relations with Pakistan remained unchanged from the previous administration during the Trump Presidency.
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Under the Biden-Harris administration, there has been no major change in the relationship of the USA with India from the earlier Trump administration. The Indian Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi known for his eagerness to have a chemistry with major world leaders, tried to establish a good chemistry with the next US President after Donald Trump, when he visited the US in 2021 and 2023. He was successful in that. In 2023, during Modi's US visit the two world leaders signed upon huge business agreements involving partnerships in the fields of infrastructure, space technology, energy and information technology.
Modi and Biden went ahead to form a Quad of 4 nations to counter the effects of the expansionist policies of China all over the world. This Quad group contains 4 countries that include the US, India, Australia and Japan. This group overlooks each and every diplomatic as well as international actions of the ruling Communist party of the People's Republic of China and takes concrete steps to prevent China from attacking the sovereignty of any country of the world. It has warned China several times not to attack Taiwan, it's close neighbor, but despite so many warnings the Taiwanese have been attacked by China in the South China Sea region. China had also attacked Indian soldiers in the Ladakh region of the Indian Union territory of Ladakh in June 2020. In the violent skirmish that took place between the Indian as well as Chinese soldiers, 16 Indian and roughly 49 Chinese soldiers were killed. It has also confiscated roughly 40 square kilometres region of land of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh in the eastern part of India during the Indo-China War of 1962. Before several decades, in the 1950s, it had confiscated the entire country of Tibet, which is located in the eastern part of Nepal and the North-East part of India. The religious as well as political leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama was given refuge inside India for several years. It has been in a state of constant conflict with all its neighbors including Japan, South Korea, India, Philippines, Taiwan, and even Mongolia. This is especially because it wants to grab some part of the land wherever it is possible!! The job of the above-mentioned Quad group of nations is to monitor all its expansionist activities worldwide and take preventive measures against them as soon as possible.
The Biden-Harris administration's approach towards Pakistan has been much better compared to Trump. Trump was indifferent towards Pakistan whereas Biden-Harris have been positive so far. Mutual trade and commerce activities have increased between the US and Pakistan in the last 3 and a half years of the Biden-Harris administration, despite the fact that a rather unstable political situation had prevailed inside Pakistan for almost 9 months of 2023. It was under severe financial stress as its foreign exchange had depleted down to zero levels. It's believed that it got huge loans amounting to billions of dollars from the IMF (International Monetary Fund) as well as the World Bank because of the support of the Biden-Harris administration. These huge loans have helped to revive it's fragmented economy to a certain extent.
Though Biden-Harris have been better in terms of their policy with Pakistan, they too have adopted a neutral stance when it comes to the disputes going on between India and Pakistan. They have not favored any of these two countries more, with respect to the other one.
Foreign Policy on African nations:
Donald Trump was not too keen to have intense business relations with African nations. However, normal diplomatic relations of the United States with African countries continued as usual during his Presidency.
On the other hand, Biden-Harris administration has been very keen to enhance business and trade with African countries. It has established special task forces to monitor this matter. At the same time, bilateral diplomatic relations of the US with African countries have gone ahead as usual, during this administration.
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