Narendra Modi verlegt ’selbständiges Indien‘ nach Donald Trumps 50% Tarif

SS: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to build a “self-reliant India” and announced tax and regulatory reforms to benefit businesspeople and the middle class in his first major speech since the US imposed 50 per cent tariffs on the country.

“I want to tell our citizens, our youth, and everyone who understands the power of technology, that by the end of this year, ‘Made in India’ semiconductor chips will be available in the market,” said Modi, who was clad in an orange turban and a scarf in the national colours of orange, white and green.

The rift between India and the US, its largest trading partner, has plunged their expanding strategic partnership into its worst crisis in decades, and has stunned many Indians, rekindling distrust of the US and the west in a country that has a long-standing friendship with Russia.

“The Americans are making it very hard for India with their public pressure campaign,” said C Raja Mohan, a visiting professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore. “As the leader of a very large nation, Prime Minister Modi cannot be seen as succumbing to those pressures.”