{"id":71226,"date":"2025-04-21T13:51:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/21\/jd-vance-heads-to-delhi-for-talks-on-fast-tracking-trade-pact"},"modified":"2025-04-22T04:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T19:07:42","slug":"jd-vance-lands-in-delhi-for-talks-on-fast-tracking-trade-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71226","title":{"rendered":"Modi and JD Vance hail \u2018significant progress\u2019 in trade negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visit to New Delhi by VP and family has to navigate tensions over visas for Indian tech workers and farmers\u2019 hostility to lowering tariffs<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the US vice-president, JD Vance, have hailed \u201csignificant progress\u201d in negotiations toward a bilateral trade agreement, a deal that could help India avoid sharp tariff hikes announced by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Vance, accompanied by second lady, Usha Vance, and their children \u2013 Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel \u2013 landed in the Indian capital earlier on Monday for a four-day visit combining high-level negotiations with family sightseeing. They were received at the airport by railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. Vance stood under a red canopy that shielded him from the blazing sun as soldiers saluted and a military band played the US anthem.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/21\/jd-vance-heads-to-delhi-for-talks-on-fast-tracking-trade-pact\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit to New Delhi by VP and family has to navigate tensions over visas for Indian tech workers and farmers\u2019 hostility to lowering tariffsIndia\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the US vice-president, JD Vance, have hailed \u201csignificant progress\u201d in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[353,558,62,557,3285,433,3280,3279,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-global-economy","category-india","category-international-trade","category-jd-vance","category-narendra-modi","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71240,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71226\/revisions\/71240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}