He skipped because India is trying to pressure ASEAN to review the FTA with India. Modi has been vocal about it. In fact mentioned in the virtual summit couple of times which does not get mentioned in this piece. Anyways he would have reached later than Trump since the summit took place when Trump was already gone to Japan. Of course the meeting with Trump was never on cards because the Indian side is not satisfied with the US offer for a trade deal. The meeting would not have taken place anyways. Spinsters at work again. No amount of news being planted would make any difference. Before the Asean Summit, Piyush Goyal started to repeat red lines rhetoric so all the report of corn and soya import turned out to be false along with the Russian oil compliance.
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He skipped because India is trying to pressure ASEAN to review the FTA with India. Modi has been vocal about it. In fact mentioned in the virtual summit couple of times which does not get mentioned in this piece. Anyways he would have reached later than Trump since the summit took place when Trump was already gone to Japan. Of course the meeting with Trump was never on cards because the Indian side is not satisfied with the US offer for a trade deal. The meeting would not have taken place anyways. Spinsters at work again. No amount of news being planted would make any difference. Before the Asean Summit, Piyush Goyal started to repeat red lines rhetoric so all the report of corn and soya import turned out to be false along with the Russian oil compliance.