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Squeezed between Trump and China, India looks for faraway friendships
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India counts as an especially relevant "middle power" in any new arrangement of the world's economies.
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Alex Travelli
NEW DELHI – When Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney electrified the crowd at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, by declaring “a rupture in the world order” and that “middle powers must act together” to survive, he may as well have called on India by name.
Within a week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India was standing beside European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen in New Delhi to announce “the mother of all deals” – a trade agreement, including defence provisions, that both sides had been struggling to see through for nearly 20 years.
