Growing India Clout Prompts US, Europe to Ignore Modi Crackdown
- BBC tax probe raises questions over press freedom in India
- ‘The world certainly isn’t about to turn on Modi or India’
This article is for subscribers only.
Just hours after Indian tax authorities searched the BBC’s offices on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held phone calls with Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron touting record orders of 470 planes by Air India Ltd.
The juxtaposition, intentional or not, marked a vivid demonstration of Modi’s success at leveraging India’s geopolitical position and economic promise to maintain good relations with the US and its allies even as his government becomes bolder in cracking down on dissent at home.