Modi’s Happy Handholding Tour: Trump Gets Tariff Timeout
In a stunning diplomatic eyebrow raise, Indian PM Narendra Modi traded Trump’s lecture tour and 50% tariffs on Russian oil for an intimate hand-in-hand powwow with Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in late August 2025. With dead serious border clashes from 2020 still simmering, these three leaders grinned through scripted photo ops, while Xi dropped buzzwords like 'Global Governance Initiative' and 'integration, not decoupling'—because who doesn’t love a jargon salad? Modi even serenaded Putin about ’1.4 billion Indians waiting’ during their lonely limo hour. Meanwhile, Trump poked India online calling their trade ‘a totally one sided disaster,’ apparently forgetting this isn’t a bedtime debate but geo-chess. Everyone pretends China-Russia-India bromance is all flowers despite decades of eyebrow-raising tariffs and insults. We’re all terrible drivers in our own international soap opera.
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Nothing says 'friendly summit' like Indian PM Modi skipping Trump’s tariff tantrums for a limocabin cuddle with Putin and Xi, while Trump tweets insults like a grumpy ex who can't read the room.
Modi hand-in-hand with Putin and Xi: the grown-ups’ version of ignoring the kid who won’t share their toys called Trump.
India’s playing geopolitics like a soap opera: one day Twitter feud with Trump, next day limo chats with Putin. Tune in for the next episode.
Source: Axios | Published: 9/2/2025 | Author: Dave Lawler
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