India-US Trade Deal Decoding Criticisms

Dr. D.K. Giri The proposed India-USA trade deal has kicked-off a good deal of controversies across the political, academic and analyst communities. The Opposition in Parliament, which is in ongoing Budget Session, is crying foul over the deal. Their criticisms are that the deal is one sided, tilted in favour of America, India’s sovereignty and strategic autonomy are compromised, Prime Minister Narendra Modi threw in the towel by giving into Donald Trump’s diplomatic bullying and tariff tantrums. In the last week, in this column, I had written about the proposed deal inferring that India had a strategic breakthrough with USA…