Trump’s visit to India is more thunder than rain.

　　Xinhua News Agency, New Delhi, February 26th (international observation) Trump’s visit to India is more thunder than rain.

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Xu

　　US President Trump ended his visit to India on the 25th. During the visit, the United States and India failed to reach a compromise on trade disputes.

　　Analysts pointed out that in the context of the US election year, Trump chose to complete his first visit to India since taking office at this time, and the political considerations behind it are obvious. India hopes to take this opportunity to solve the trade problem with the United States, but the differences between the two sides are obvious and I am afraid they cannot be bridged in the short term.

　　Trade differences remain unresolved.

　　The United States is currently India’s second largest trading partner. Indian Prime Minister Modi hopes that by meeting with Trump, he can persuade him to abandon the tariff increase and restore India’s GSP treatment as soon as possible, thus boosting domestic economic development.

　　On the 25th, Trump and Modi issued a joint statement after their talks in New Delhi. The two sides agreed to quickly conclude the trade negotiations, but the "limited trade agreement" previously expected by some media was not mentioned.

　　Modi said that India and the United States will continue negotiations on bilateral trade and strive to achieve good results. Trump said that the focus of the United States and India is to establish fair and equal bilateral economic relations. The teams of the two sides "made progress in reaching a comprehensive trade agreement" but "no agreement has been reached". Trump also once again publicly complained that India imposed "unfairly" high tariffs on American goods.

　　India and the United States have been negotiating on bilateral trade since the second half of last year, but they have been unable to reach an agreement. According to American media reports, the two sides have obvious differences on agricultural products, medical equipment, digital trade and tariff increase.

　　In the opinion of analysts, the absence of US Trade Representative Wright Heze from this visit not only reflects the difficulties in trade negotiations between the two sides, but also shows that Trump is not in a hurry to reach a trade agreement. Before the US presidential election in November, it was difficult to make progress in the US-India trade negotiations.

　　Indian public opinion pointed out that no matter whether the two sides can finally sign a trade agreement, India’s demands for the US to resume GSP treatment may be difficult to achieve.

　　The United States takes more and gives less.

　　Trump’s only gain in this trip is arms sales. The joint statement said that India and the United States have signed an arms sales agreement worth more than $3 billion, and the United States will sell 24 "MH-60 Romeo" and 6 "AH-64E Apache" helicopter gunships to India.

　　In the past few years, the United States has tried its best to win over India in the strategic layout of the Asia-Pacific region, intending to become India’s "primary defense partner" and at the same time trying to seize the arms sales market to India from Russia. India hopes to enhance its position in Asia and even the world by strengthening its defense relationship with the United States.

　　However, an unnamed source in the Indian military revealed that there are serious differences between the military and the government on weapons procurement. The military believes that as a traditional weapon supplier, Russia is obviously more competitive, because the transfer of weapons-related technology is the focus of the arms purchase contract, while the United States only sells products to India, but keeps its mouth shut about technology transfer.

　　Analysts pointed out that the United States has given so much to India, and India is more inclined to show independence under Modi’s administration, so it is difficult for the United States to really win over India.

　　This year is the election year of the United States. The arms sales contract obtained by Trump’s visit and the "close relationship" with Modi are conducive to his re-election. However, there have been criticisms of Modi’s government in India, arguing that India should not be too involved in domestic affairs such as US elections. (Participating in reporter: Xiong Maozhen)