Mihir Sharma: Musk’s plans for India reveal cracks in Trump’s political coalition
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Mihir Sharma: Musk’s plans for India reveal cracks in Trump’s political coalition

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Elon Musk’s companies may finally have cracked open the Indian market, though the reaction from US President Donald Trump shows the coalition he’s constructed is more fragile than it appears. It wasn’t obvious to anyone whether Musk met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his recent trip to Washington as a businessman or as a representative of the US government. In fact, when specifically asked if Musk should build a factory in India to get around its tariff walls, Trump said that would be “very unfair." Musk himself felt strongly about the issue, saying that “the reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1-B."

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