K.J.

SOMAIYA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND

COMMERCE (AUTONOMOUS)

NAME : ALFIYA KHAN

STD : TYBA 
Roll no. : 269
ASSIGNMENT : INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 
TOPIC : INDIA & U.S RELATIONS AFTER DONALD TRUMP
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

 I would like to express my special gratitude of thanks to my teacher Abhinaya kamble

ma’am as well as to our principal Veena Sanekar Ma’am who gave me the golden
opportunity to do this wonderful assignment on the topic (INDIA ANS USA RELATIONS
AFTER TRUMP), which engaged me in a lot of Research that helped me learn a lot.
 Secondly I would also like to thank my parents, friends and some Research Scholars like
Tridivesh Singh maini,Nishant Srivastava , Dr. Vikas Divyakirti and others whose research
papers and contributions helped me a lot in finalising this assignment within the limited
time frame.
INDIA AND U.S. RELATIONS AFTER
TRUMP
TOPICS COVERED

 INTRODUCTION
 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
 IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING INDIA &. US RELATIONS
 INDIA AND US RELATIONS AFTER TRUMP
 CHANGES BOUGHT VIA BIDEN
 BECA AND THE AGREEMENTS
 BIDEN’S EARLIER POLICY
 IRAN’S ISSUES
 POSSIBLE PROBLEMS
 CONCLUSION
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
 INTRODUCTION
 India's relations with different countries will consistently be a significant piece
of India's Foreign Policy. One such significant worldwide connection is between
India-United States relations (India – US Relations).
 So its important for us to study about it in detail
 In this assignment I will be discussing about India’s relation with the United
States of America and how the changes in the politics of United States have an
impact on India and the changes that has occurred between the US and India
relations after the former president Donald Trump
 AN OVERVIEW OF INDIA-US RELATIONS OVER YEARS

 Many leaders of India before freedom had agreeable relations with the United States which
proceeded well after India got freedom from the United Kingdom in 1947.
 In 1954, the United States made Pakistan a Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) settlement
partner. India developed key and military relations with the Soviet Union to counter
Pakistan–United States relations.
 In 1961, India turned into an establishing individual from the Non-Aligned Movement to
evade inclusion in the Cold War strategic maneuver between the United States and the Soviet
Union.
 The Nixon organization's help for Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 influenced
relations until the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991.
 During the 1990s, Indian international strategy adjusted to the unipolar world and grew its
ties with the United States.
 In the twenty-first century, Indian international strategy has looked to use India's
essential self-sufficiency to shield sovereign rights and advance public interests inside a
multi-polar world.
 Under the organizations of Presidents George W. Shrub (2001–2009) and Barack
Obama (2009–2017), the United States has shown convenience to India's center public
interests and recognized remarkable concerns.
 Increase in two-sided exchange and speculation, co-procedure on worldwide security
matters, consideration of India in dynamic on issue of worldwide administration (United
Nations Security Council), overhauled portrayal in exchange and venture gatherings
(World Bank, IMF, APEC), entrance into multilateral fare control systems (MTCR,
Wassenaar Arrangement, Australia Group) and backing for affirmation in the Nuclear
Suppliers Group and joint-assembling through innovation sharing courses of action
have become key achievements and a boost on the way to closer US–India relations.
 This was considered very important as a part of India’s international relations policy
 In 2016, India and the United States marked the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of
Agreement and India was announced a Major Defense Partner of the United States.
 In 2020, India had given its consent to ending a fare ban on a restorative medication
known as hydroxychloroquine that US President Donald Trump had named just like a
"distinct advantage", in the midst of the battle against the progressing worldwide
(COVID-19) pandemic.
 As per Gallup's yearly World Affairs study, India is seen by Americans as their 6th most
loved country on the planet, with 71% of Americans seeing India well in 2015.Gallup
surveys tracked down that 74% of Americans saw India as a good ally in 2017,72% in
2019 , and 75% in 2020.
 WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO STUDY ABOUT
US-INDIA RELATION?
 The US has since quite a while ago
clarified that it underpins India's
native safeguard industry, its goal to
be a territorial force and its power. As
the pearl necklace fixes, it is the ideal
opportunity for us to perceive the US
as the one reliable partner that can
help India counter dangers in the
locale, cultivating a safer world.
 It’s time we start looking into it more
critically then before
 US-INDIA RELATIONS AFTER TRUMP
 Joe Biden crushed Donald Trump to turn into the 46th US President.
 Biden's running mate Kamala Devi Harris has become the principal lady and
first Indian-and African-American Vice President of the country.
 Biden and Harris swore into office on twentieth January 2021.
 There are a many ways by which the US economy, its wellbeing, and the
arrangement selections of its administration influences India.
 On October 27th 2020, India and the United States marked the Basic
Exchange and Cooperation Agreement – BECA. It was endorsed during the
third round of 2+2 discourse.
 US ELECTIONS IMPACT ON INDIA
 Financial Relations:
 Under the Biden organization, India's exchange with the US could recuperate from the
plunge since 2017-18.
 Exchange/Trade Surplus:
 India has consistently had an exchange excess (sends out surpassing imports) with the
US. The exchange excess has augmented from USD 5.2 billion out of 2001-02 to
USD 17.3 billion out of 2019-20.
 Exchange excess had topped at USD 21.2 billion out of 2017-18 and has directed
somewhat. In 2019-20, India traded products worth USD 53 billion to the US – that is
generally 17% of all Indian fares that year and imported merchandise worth USD
35.7 billion consequently – that is generally 7.5% of every Indian import.
 Investment :
 The fifth-greatest hotspot for Foreign Direct Investment into India is U.S.
  Since 2000 only countries like Mauritius, Singapore, Netherlands, and Japan have
contributed more FDI . Look at the subtleties on Foreign Direct Investment – FDI on the
connected page. The US likewise represents 33% of all Foreign Portfolio Investments (that
is, interest in monetary resources) into India.
 US' Generalized System of Preference:
 India's prohibition from the US' Generalized System of Preference (GSP) could come up
for reevaluation under Biden.
 In 2019, President Donald Trump had ended India's assignment as a recipient agricultural
country under the GSP exchange program in the wake of establishing that it has not
guaranteed the US that it will give "fair and sensible access" to its business sectors.
 India was the biggest recipient of the program in 2017 with USD 5.7 billion in imports to
the US given obligation free status.
 GSP is intended to advance financial improvement by permitting obligation free passage
for a large number of items from assigned recipient nations.
 H1-B Visa and Immigration Issue:
 How a US President takes a gander at the H1-B visa issue, influences the possibilities of
Indian youth undeniably more than the young people of some other country.
 Under President Trump, who seriously shortened the visa system, attributable to his
arrangement of "America First", India had endured the most.
 H-1B visa is a non-outsider visa that permits American organizations to utilize
unfamiliar laborers in strength occupations that require hypothetical or specialized skill.
 Trump had given markers that he was running after merit-put together movement with
respect to a focuses based framework, instead of family-supported migration, yet his
eccentric arrangements as to both understudy and work visas, have brought about Indian
understudies starting to view at adjoining Canada as a supported objective.
 This is an important issue that concerns both the countries .
 There was a huge decrease in Indian understudies enlisted in graduate-level designing and
software engineering courses in US colleges between 2016-17 and 2018-19, while there has
been a relating expansion in the quantity of understudies joined up with Canadian colleges.
 Biden will be compelled severally, in any case, and, given the current account, significant
changes may not be conceivable, albeit some fiddling is absolutely conceivable in the short
run.
 As indicated by an arrangement record gave by the Bidens campaign, one of the initial steps
he would take is to work with the Congress is to administer the movement change or
migration , which according to him will mean to keep families together by giving citizenship
to almost 11 million undocumented settlers; an expected 500,000 of those migrants are from
India.
 Exchange/Trade Services:
 India represents almost 5% of the USA's administrations imports from the World.
 Civil Liberties and Democratic Rights in India:
 Albeit some US Congressmen and ladies had raised
warnings on the common freedoms circumstance
following the renouncing of J&K's exceptional status
under Article 370 and section of the Citizenship
(Amendment) Act close by the proposed cross country
National Register of Citizens (NRC), the Trump
organization had not made any moves past offering some
cursory expressions.
 Look at the connections for subtleties on the National
Register of Citizens – NRC.
 As per the Biden lobby's approach paper, Biden has been
"disillusioned by the actions that the Government of
India has taken with the execution and consequence of
the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam and
the entry of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act into law".
 Different Issues:
 Other disputed matters among India and the US – like the precarious issue of information
confinement or covering costs of drugs and clinical gadgets – get an opportunity of
getting towards a goal.
 Further, under the Trump organization, the US sanctions on Iran seriously restricted
India's sourcing of modest raw petroleum. In China, almost certainly, a Biden
organization will help India against China, rather than clubbing the two together.
 Paris Climate Accord:
 Biden has vowed to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, and this may help nations like India
in managing the enormous difficulties – both specialized and monetary – on this front
 Biden has effectively demonstrated that he might want to work with India on the issue.
 Here it is imperative to recall that Trump, who pulled out from the understanding, had been
reproachful of India's discharges; during the fag end of the official mission Trump had
alluded to India's air as foul, inspiring solid responses from areas of the Indian
commentariat and media.
 On October 27th 2020, India and the United States marked the Basic Exchange and
Cooperation Agreement – BECA. It was endorsed during the third round of 2+2 discourse.
 What is BECA?
 BECA represents Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement. It is a settlement or
correspondence understanding proposed for geo-spatial collaboration between the Ministry
of Defense of the Government of India and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency of
the US Department of Defense. It will empower the two nations to share military data and
reinforce their guard organization.
 BECA finishes the "primary agreements" for profound military collaboration between the
two nations. India and the US have effectively consented to three key basic arrangements :-
1. General Security of Military Information Agreement – GSOMIA in 2002, that covered
the region of territories of safety and military data
2. The Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement – LEMOA in 2016 covering
coordinations trade and interchanges Interchanges
3. Compatibility and Security Agreement – COMCASA in 2018 which was for similarity
and security.
 BIDEN’s EARLIER POLICIES

 Biden's Earlier Policies on India It is appropriate to call attention to that while

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden assumed a positive
part in encouraging the reason for India-US relations.
 He upheld the Indo-US atomic arrangement (despite the fact that the activity was
the brainchild of the Bush Administration), one of the milestone accomplishments
of the two-sided relationship, while Barack Obama, at that point a Senator, was
hesitant to do in like manner.
 It is essential to likewise call attention to that even prior to turning out to be Vice-
President,
 Biden said , ‘My dream is that in 2020, the two closest nations in the world will be
India and the United States
 IRAN ISSUES
 It isn't just Biden's previous record, yet additionally his methodology towards
significant worldwide issues which could prepare for powerful co-activity.
 In the first place, on the Iran issue, his methodology of being adaptable suits India's
monetary advantages.
 Biden has effectively expressed that he would reemerge the JCPOA (an activity of the
Obama Administration), subject to specific conditions.
 In a meeting with CBS News, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif had seen
explanations by the Biden lobby emphatically, saying that 'the assertions by the Biden
camp have been really encouraging, yet we should keep a watch out.’
 This implies that India could get more alternatives, in any event in the more extended
run, concerning financial relations with Iran (which incorporates the impost of oil,
however exchange which has dropped fundamentally from 2018-19).
 Above all, India can likewise proceed with the deliberately significant Chabahar Port venture,
which is significant for its essential objectives, just as provincial availability aspirations versus
Afghanistan; somewhat recently or thereabouts, little advancement has been made toward this
path.
 Curiously, as of late Iran requested India to give hardware to a significant segment from the task –
the Chabahar-Zahedan rail route.
 As of late, there were question marks brought over India's interest up in the task, despite the fact
that visits in September 2020 by India's External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, and Defense
Minister, Rajnath Singh, sent an unmistakable message that India took the Chabahar Project and
the by and large reciprocal relationship truly.
 POSSIBLE PROBLEMS
 Notwithstanding Biden's previous record versus India, Kamala Harris, the help that
Democrats get from Indian Americans, international impulses, and India's monetary
significance, there is a suspicion in specific quarters with respect to Biden's
comments on approaches like the Citizenship Amendment Act, just as Kamala
Harris' comments on the disavowal of Article 370 in Kashmir, that have brought
about specific quarters bringing up issue marks as to the eventual fate of Indo-US
relations under a Biden Administration.
 This can cause major backlashes in India’s relation with U.S.
 CONCLUSION
 All short, Biden's spotlight is probably going to be focused on homegrown issues, for
example, containing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, just as managing the US
economy.
 Aside from that, politically he will have various difficulties, particularly to "mend" a
country that is so enraptured, as is obvious from the political decision results.
 However, international strategy is high on the plan and the world will watch the Biden
Administration's way to deal with significant issues, New Delhi being no exemption. While
there could be contrasts over certain issues, the relationship is probably going to develop
and probably not going to be uni-layered
 As for the India’s part India show not presume things that everything will go well and
should not see this complicated relationship with a lens of simplicity , India should take ant
step only after considering all the angles involves
BIBLIOGRAPHY

 Websites ised for Photographs

 IDSA.IN
 CLEARIAS
 IAS EXPRESS
 THE NEW NATION
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 www.drishtiias.com
 www.mea.gov.in
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 www.brookings.edu