The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 17th February 2025

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Transactional turn: On India and the new U.S. administration

India must push back against the U.S. and safeguard its interests

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington last week was brief but packed with headline-generating developments. The visit came less than a month after U.S. President Donald Trump was sworn in, making Mr. Modi the fourth world leader to hold bilateral meetings with him, following the leaders of Israel, Japan, and Jordan, all close U.S. allies. The joint statement issued afterwards outlined a range of substantive (meaningful or important) discussions. While many announcements focused on India’s purchases of American goods and investments in the U.S., they managed to avoid some of the tough measures many had anticipated. Both sides launched ‘Mission 500’ ($500 billion in bilateral trade by 2030) and initiated discussions on a free trade agreement, with phase one of the draft expected this year. Mr. Trump announced an increase in Indian purchases of U.S. energy, oil, and defence equipment, moves expected to help balance the $45.7 billion U.S. trade deficit within the total $130 billion goods trade. Additionally, there was agreement on a new umbrella framework, COMPACT (Catalyzing Opportunities for Military Partnership, Accelerated Commerce & Technology for the 21st Century), to streamline cooperation across key sectors. They also rebranded the Biden-era Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) as Transforming (making significant changes to) the Relationship Utilising Strategic Technology (TRUST), focusing on semiconductors, quantum computing, and AI, with a commitment to developing an AI infrastructure road map this year. A significant moment came when Mr. Trump announced his approval of the extradition (the process of sending a person accused of a crime to another country) of Tahawwur Rana, involved in 26/11 attacks, to India for trial.

Once the dust settles on Mr. Trump’s unconventional (not traditional or expected) remarks and Mr. Modi’s rare engagement with the media in this format, India must assess the broader takeaways (lessons or conclusions) from this visit. The positive optics and their camaraderie signal a strong foundation for India-U.S. relations over the next four years. There is also clear continuity in key areas of strategic partnership, including Indo-Pacific engagement and the Quad, with Mr. Trump’s planned visit to Delhi for the Quad Summit later this year expected to reinforce these commitments. However, economic discussions, trade, energy, nuclear cooperation and defence are likely to dominate the India-U.S. agenda, giving the relationship a transactional (focused on exchange or dealing) turn reminiscent of Mr. Trump’s first tenure. There is not much evidence that Mr. Modi’s visit significantly softened Mr. Trump’s stance on imposing counter-tariffs and reciprocal taxes or influenced a more humane (compassionate) approach to the deportation of undocumented immigrants aboard military flights. These could present challenges for the Indian government going forward. As India engages with the new U.S. administration, it must carefully assess its own interests, assert its position where necessary, and push back when required to safeguard its strategic (long-term, involving planning and careful thinking) and economic (related to money and trade) priorities.

Hindu Vocab Wordlist 17th February 2025

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1. Substantive: Important, serious, or related to real issues or matters.
2. COMPACT: A formal agreement between two or more people, organizations, or countries.
3. Extradition: The action of sending someone who has been accused of a crime back to the country where the crime was committed.
4. Unconventional: Not following what is usual or accepted by most people.
5. Takeaways: The most important fact, lesson, or piece of information that you learn from something you experience.
6. Transactional: Related to the process of exchange or dealing between two or more parties.
7. Humane: Showing kindness, care, and compassion towards others, especially those who are suffering.
8. Strategic: Relating to long-term goals and the means of achieving them.
9. Camaraderie: A feeling of friendship and trust among people who spend a lot of time together.
10. Reciprocal: Involving two or more people or groups who do the same thing to each other or agree to help each other in a similar way.

Hindu Vocab Master 17th February 2025 with Synonyms & Antonyms

Here are the synonyms and antonyms of all the difficult words in Hindu Vocab Master Hindi equivalents for all the words for 17th February 2025:

Word	Synonyms	Antonyms
Substantive	Important, meaningful, significant, essential	Insignificant, trivial, unimportant, minor
COMPACT	Agreement, contract, deal, pact	Disagreement, rupture, dispute, conflict
Extradition	Surrender, deportation, delivery, transfer	Retention, detention, holding, keeping
Unconventional	Unusual, unconventional, atypical, nontraditional	Conventional, standard, typical, normal
Takeaways	Lessons, conclusions, insights, findings	Misunderstandings, misconceptions, confusion, errors
Transactional	Commercial, business, contractual, exchange	Noncommercial, personal, non-bargaining, unprofessional
Humane	Compassionate, kind, empathetic, caring	Cruel, harsh, unkind, inhumane
Strategic	Tactical, planned, calculated, intentional	Haphazard, random, spontaneous, unplanned
Camaraderie	Friendship, companionship, fellowship, solidarity	Enmity, hostility, alienation, rivalry
Reciprocal	Mutual, corresponding, complementary, interchangeable	One-sided, unilateral, nonreciprocal, unequal