“This trip, in particular, reflects a Trump campaign strategy to showcase him in his presidential role during short, carefully managed trips that provide counter-programming to the Democrats’ primary contest and produce the kinds of visuals his campaign can use in future ads,” Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire write for the Associated Press.
 
“Despite growing frictions between Washington and New Delhi on trade, Modi presents a vision of what a successful Trumpism could look like. The Indian leader has succeeded in rallying not only his own party and base around him, but a majority of the country,” James Griffiths writes for CNN.
 
CFR’s Alyssa Ayres looks at U.S.-India trade tensions.