In message to US, India and Germany underline ‘predictability, reliability’

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Underlining that “predictability today has a huge premium in global politics”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday framed Germany as a reliable partner and said that with the world facing “economic volatility”, there was a “very powerful case” for India and the European Union, and India and Germany to work “much more closely with each other”. Jaishankar’s remarks, which followed his meeting with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, are a thinly-veiled reference to the unpredictability of the partnership displayed by the US administration under President Donald Trump. Without criticising the US, Wadephul, who is on a two-day visit to...