'Indo-US Relations Like a Ship in Extremely Stormy Weather but Crisis Could Be Calming Down': Shashi Tharoor
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Shashi Tharoor, a former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee, said that although US President Donald Trump’s decision to increase the H-1B visa fee to a $100,000 is a serious blow and the third whammy to hit India in the last few weeks after the 50% tariffs and the revocation of the Chabahar sanctions waiver, he is still of the belief that the India-US “crisis” could be partly calming down.
However, of the prevailing situation between India and the United States, Tharoor said: “In the short-term, we are like a ship buffeted by extremely stormy and turbulent weather, the waves are cascading, tossing us from one side to the next and that’s why to say we are on even keel right now would obviously be premature."
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