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| That Obama thought it fit to include his meeting with Modi in the video, underlines both his personal rapport and the strategic significance India has come to acquire for the US. |
Among the foreign policy successes Modi can legitimately claim is the personal rapport he has built with US President Obama.
The sentiments are reciprocated and Obama also counts friendship with Modi as a foreign policy success.
A ten-minute introductory video of Barack Obama played at Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Wednesday gives a fleeting glimpse of him and Modi, in the hug mode.
The video, played to a huge audience, set the mood for the Obama speech that followed, in which he made a passionate pitch for Hillary Clinton.
The introductory video retraced critical moments of Obama presidency, including the hunting of Osama.
That Obama thought it fit to include his meeting with Modi in the video, underlines both his personal rapport and the strategic significance India has come to acquire for the US.