Sreeram Chaulia is a professor and dean at the Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, in Sonipat, India. His most recent book, Trumped: Emerging Powers in a Post-American World, was published in 2019. He tweets on global economic and political developments at: @sreeramchaulia.
Indian farmers, traders and vendors negotiate prices of vegetables at a wholesale vegetable market in Hyderabad on February 1, 2018.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China, on September 4, 2016. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)