The official White House statement read, "The leaders agreed to strengthen the US-India strategic partnership in 2019 and exchanged perspectives on how to reduce the US trade deficit with India, expand security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific, and increase cooperation in Afghanistan,"
Recently, the US Administration raised the tariffs on import of steel and aluminum from India, recently. This was one of the major step taken by the administration, under the Trump’s drive to reduce the U.S. deficit and promote manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
While India threatened the U.S. for a strong retaliation, it also added that the country won’t take any action until the end of this month.
Prime Minister Modi and President Trump also discussed about the two countries cooperating at the Afghanistan issue. As per the records, a U.S. official recently declared that President Trump is planning to withdraw a major segment of the U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The news suggest that out of 14000 U.S. Troops, Trump will recall 5000.
The reduced presence of U.S. Military in Afghanistan means that there would be minimization of the mission of training Afghan forces and waging an air campaign against the Taliban and other militant groups.
On the other hand, Trump seems to be in trouble with his border wall project. Recently, Trump gave a statement wherein he said that the ex-Presidents of America wanted to install the border wall. However, 4 ex-presidents have already declined the statement, claiming it is not true.
"This should have been done by all of the presidents that preceded me," Trump said. "And they all know it. Some of them have told me that we should have done it."
Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter have said that the statement is false.
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