India-US relations in Trump 2.0 will reach a higher plane

Donald Trump's to the US and pays for its defence.

- SURENDRA KUMAR

An enraged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quipped "there isn't a snowball's chance in hell" that Canada would join the US.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum isn't going to be bullied by Donald Trump. Following Trump's threat that the Gulf Mexincredible place, and the people will benefit greatly if and when it becomes part of our nation." Both France and Germany have warned Trump against the forcible takeover of Greenland.

In his first term, attending the first meeting of NATO, he demanded that member countries should pay more for NATO's defence budget; most of them enhanced their contributions a bit. But now, he wants them to contribute 5% of their GDP. They feel, it's too high a demand to meet; it will impact their overall national budgets.

Amidst the prevailing anxiety surrounding President Trump 2.0, India can still smile and feel reasonD friends and foes into be renamed the Gulf of ably confident that bilateral alike are feeling the heat of his provocative, rattling and outrageous remarks even before he is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. It seems he relishes his reputation as the disrupter.

Criticising Jimmy Carter, former President, for handing over the canal to Panama, he threatened to take it back.