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    Waiting for Garcetti: India evaluates its ties with a post-Trump US

    NEW DELHI — Eric Garcetti is not exactly a household name in India. The Los Angeles mayor whom President Joe Biden nominated to be his ambassador to New Delhi has raised questions for some Indians about whether U.S.-Indian ties might change after the Trump-era favored-nation status. Administration officials insist India remains a priority and a vital partner. But few things can match the ...
    by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Aug 04, 2021 5 minutes

    NEW DELHI — Eric Garcetti is not exactly a household name in India.

    The Los Angeles mayor whom President Joe Biden nominated to be his ambassador to New Delhi has raised questions for some Indians about whether U.S.-Indian ties might change after the Trump-era favored-nation status. Administration officials insist India remains a priority and a vital partner.

    But few things can match the “Howdy, Modi” rally then-President Donald Trump staged for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019 at a state fair in Houston. Modi responded in kind a few months later with a massive gathering billed as “Namaste, Trump” in India’s Gujarat state. The two regularly heaped praise on each other, even as Modi’s policies on human rights and democracy were criticized as abusive.

    Garcetti, as a political appointee, has little expertise in India beyond several visits and a year of college study of two languages spoken here, Hindi and Urdu. He does

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