Meeting in Delhi overshadowed by press freedom questions as US journalists kept away
Joe Biden took fresh steps on Friday to lure India’s prime minister,
The meeting was given an added symbolic importance as Biden was able to seize upon the Chinese president Xi Jinping’s decision not to attend Modi’s much-vaunted summit. The US is trying gradually to make the traditionally neutrala more explicit partner and part of a wider political and defence alliance in the Indo-Pacific.
The two leaders agreed to progress agreements reached in June, when Modi visited Washington, including a deal to allow General Electric to produce jet engines in India to power Indian military aircraft. Biden decided to delay his planned post-summit press conference and hold it at his next stop in Vietnam, reflecting the tight press controls being mounted by the Indian security services.
At the Washington press conference with Biden in June, the one question to Modi came from the Wall Street Journal reporter Sabrina Siddiqui, who asked the Hindu nationalist about accusations ofSiddiqui was subsequently subjected to “intense online harassment”, the White House Correspondents’ Association said, “including from people with ties to the prime minister’s political party”.
The US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, joined the bilateral, as did the White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan. Indian attenders included the external affairs minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, and the security adviser Ajit Doval.
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