No one would mistake them for best of friends.
But US president Joe Biden, the son of blue-collar Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who rose from tea seller’s son to premier, have developed a relationship based on mutual respect of their scrappy backgrounds and pragmatism about the shared challenges their two countries face.
Biden is hosting PM Modi for a state visit this week as he looks to tighten his relationship with the leader of a nation of 1.4 billion that the US administration sees as a pivotal force in Asia for decades to come. The pomp-filled visit will mark the two leaders’ 10th in-person or virtual engagement since Biden became president in 2021. They’re expected to meet again in September in India at the…
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