In this week’s editors’ discussion on Trend Lines, WPR’s Judah Grunstein and Freddy Deknatel talk about U.S. President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to India, and why his camaraderie with Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not been enough to overcome tensions between the world’s two biggest democracies.

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