President Donald Trump visited India on February 24 and 25. By most measures, the trip qualified as a success. The very fact that Trump—a leader notoriously averse to long-distance travel—actually made the trip is notable.¹ More substantively, he delivered a well-received speech in a large cricket stadium in the state of Gujarat. The address celebrated India’s political and cultural traditions, and generated loud and long applause lines from the thousands in attendance. In New Delhi, he held meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that resulted in a far-reaching joint statement that spoke of cooperation in a wide variety of spaces, from cyber security to counternarcotics.² And while the failure to finalize a long-negotiated trade deal put a damper on the trip, the two sides did produce three key deliverables: A new defense deal involving fighter helicopters, and two energy agreements.

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