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Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy
Politics
Robbie Gramer, Jack Detsch, James Palmer, Michael Rowand, Nina Palmer

Trump Looks to Arms Sales to Deepen Ties With India

U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a rally at NRG Stadium in Houston on Sept. 22, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The Trump administration is looking to ramp up arms sales to India in the wake of the country’s deadly border clashes with China, opening a new front of tensions between Washington and Beijing, U.S. officials and congressional aides told Foreign Policy. 

The Trump administration in recent months has laid the groundwork for new arms sales to India that go above and beyond what previous administrations considered, including longer-term weapons systems with higher levels of technology and sophistication, such as armed drones, according to the officials. 

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