Modi-Macron meeting: Trade to AI; India, France set new targets
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron have met to discuss strengthening bilateral ties. The talks focused on expanding cooperation in trade and artificial intelligence.
Why it matters
This meeting signals a deepening strategic partnership between India and France, particularly in the critical sectors of technology and global commerce.
Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021.
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