At a time when social media threats, reciprocal actions, and shrill rhetoric are becoming the global norm, the manner in which the India-U.K. economic relationship is unfolding is a refreshing change. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s two-day visit to India last week reinforced the existing solidity in economic relations and deepened them. India’s negotiations with the U.S. have been fraught, erratic, and dramatic. U.S. President Donald Trump has also shown that he is more than willing to change the contours of deals already struck. Negotiations with the European Union have been less fraught and dramatic, but there certainly seems to be a gap between the positive assurances made by the leaders and what the negotiators say in private about the deal’s progress. Against this backdrop, Sir St
Mature relationship: on the India-United Kingdom economic relationship

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