The Indian Prime Minister has been in France for a sixth visit since his arrival in power in 2014. Between Macron and Modi, the current seems to pass well.
Paris is hosting the summit of artificial intelligence this week. Emmanuel Macron Co-prosA for the occasion this meeting with the Indian Prime Minister. The opportunity for Narendra Modi to make a sixth visit to France since his accession to power in 2014. With AI, Paris and New Delhi seem to have found a new field of collaboration as part of their strategic partnership. As RFI recalls, this privileged relationship between France and India is not new.
While Jacques Chirac had refused to sanction New Delhi after Indian nuclear tests in 1998, unlike other Western chancelleries, a privileged partnership was subsequently born between the two nations. Originally, sales of arms had launched romance. From now on, it continues thanks to partnerships in multiple fields, such as nuclear energy, aerospace or research and development. But today, the alchemy that would characterize personal relations between Emmanuel Macron and Narendra Modi would also allow Franco-Indian relations to continue their boom, analyze specialists, whose specialists, whose specialists, whose specialists, whose specialists, whose specialists, whose specialists, whose specialists, RFI echoes.
“The current seems indeed to pass between the two men”, notes with the radio the political scientist and specialist of India, Jean-Luc Racine. “If the French sometimes have the impression that Macron overplayed in a way, lending themselves to the hugs of Modi. I am not sure that the French president will kisse all the heads of state and government who buy bursts “, He analyzes. For Jean-Luc Racine, “These hugs will soon translate into the expansion of French arms sales to India, which makes France now behind Russia, whose weight as the main provider of ‘Weapons in New Delhi did not have [lui] keeping down. “