Here's a list of PM Modi's bilateral trips







Autoplay Autoplay 1 of 10 The welcome in Israel “We have waited 70 years for you,“ Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu greeted PM Narendra Modi. PM lands in Washington PM Narendra Modi, arrived in the US capital on 25 June 2017 and was welcomed with loud cheers and applause by the Indian community members who were waiting outside the Willard InterContinental Hotel to catch a glimpse of the Indian leader.



As Modi's motorcade pulled up in front of the hotel where the Prime Minister will be staying during his three-day visit, the crowd of Indians gathered outside and standing behind a barricade burst into a huge applause and started chanting 'Modi, Modi'.

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Modi meets Trump Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the US President Donald Trump at the White House during his recent US trip. Highlights from Trump-Modi meet "I deeply appreciate your strong commitment to the enhancement of our bilateral relations," Modi told him.



"I am sure that under your leadership a mutually beneficial strategic partnership will gain new strength, new positivity, and will reach new heights," Modi said.



Trump said he would like a trading relationship that is "fair and reciprocal."



"It is important that barriers be removed to the export of US goods into your markets and that we reduce our trade deficit with your country," Trump said. Modi wave Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to supporters as he arrives in Washington on the second leg of his three-nation visit on 25 June, 2017.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’s first conversation with US President Donald Trump hangs on two pillars -- personal bonding and policy continuity. These are the two big boxes waiting to be ticked on Monday and while staff on both sides might be busy with the details, the fact is that they all want to know whether the Trump disruption will spare or hit the India relationship.To understand this better, it’s important to the flesh out the two pivots on which this grammar of this conversation depends. Let’s take policy continuity first, which essentially relates to the substance of this pre-eminent strategic partnership for India.What’s new here? To begin with, just the approach. Never before in the last most substantive decade in Indo-US relations, has New Delhi put such a premium on maintaining just plain consistency.It’s always been about trying to discover the next big thing after the nuclear deal. This bug had also caught on in Washington, where the India relationship became this laboratory of testing new ideas, of building new partnerships which are not necessarily alliances even though they may mimick characteristics.But with Trump in White House, there’s a new chaotic streak and quite regardless of whether it’s good or bad, the fact is it comes with a clear message: take nothing for granted, especially deals from the past. Which is why policy continuity and consistency become critical for India. In other words, even if you know it, you want it said, stated and written all over again.And while the reaffirmation exercise can be tricky, it also provides opportunity to create fresh emphasis, which is where the quality of bonding between the two leaders will have an effect.Take Pakistan for instance, where there’s considerable convergence on both sides, the test will be the distance Trump is willing to travel to echo Indian concerns. Will he show that definitive tilt towards India so early in office that other administrations in the recent past have shied away from in their initial years just to keep the ‘balance’ with Pakistan?Similarly, the initiative on building business and production partnerships in the defence sector, which is guided by the overall convergence of Indo-US strategic interests is another area that will require considerable political backing from White House.Recognising and reaffirming India’s special status in relevant US categories for arms business will be one way of bringing fresh energy and also ending any process uncertainty or doubts.With almost no one in State Department made specifically in-charge of South Asia, the entire relationship is currently being driven out of the White House. As a result, even the details on new partnerships for clean energy, a sort of replacement package for climate change, will require Trump’s impetus and authorisation.This will be a good time for India to reopen the conversation on building viable nuclear power plants together besides gaining access to clean coal technology under these new energy partnerships.Now, personal bonding in such situations is greatly influenced by the individual political standing of the leaders at that point in time, largely because that also defines their constraints.For Modi, this is a big plus. BJP’s victory in Uttar Pradesh is seen externally as the PM having won a mid-term poll of sorts. In fact, that’s exactly how many western leaders have been describing it in their conversation, and Trump too made it a point to call up Modi to felicitate him on the UP results.In many ways, Modi is seen as a leader with considerable domestic political latitude to take hard decisions – be it demonetisation or pushing the GST through the political loops.On the other hand, Trump has been rather transactional in his conversations with other world leaders. And while contradictory details emerge of his meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the truth is he has not shied away from masking his political line, unless, as his aides put it, he sees a ‘good deal’ His negative campaign line on India was on jobs Indians apparently took away from Americans.The good part for New Delhi is the issue has already played out and moved away from the realm of the White House, making it no longer an irritant in the real sense for the moment. And if that makes for just cursory presence on the table, then there’s really no major downside except the traditional gaps on improving the trade relationship. On this count, India too may be better off examining fresh opportunities a Trump approach to trade may provide than parrot the old line.“He’s a good guy, I like him,” is how Trump once described Modi to an Indian diplomat. New Delhi’s hope will be that emphasis ends the well-known Trump uncertainty, for India at least.