Trump to skip India visit for Quad summit: NYT

US President Donald Trump no longer has plans to visit India this year for the Quad Summit, as per a New York Times report published on Saturday.

According to the report titled ‘The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unravelled’, the US president had previously told PM Modi about his arrival in India, but the plan now seems to have been cancelled.

Neither the US nor the Indian governments have issued an official response to the claims. India is scheduled to host the Quad summit later this year. Earlier, the Trump administration convened the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in January, just a day after Trump began his second presidential term.

This comes amid ongoing trade tensions between the two nations and following Trump’s repeated and controversial claims of his intervention in India-Pakistan in May 2025, which India has denied.

On June 17, Trump and Modi spoke for 35 minutes while Trump was flying back to Washington from the G7 Summit in Canada, which Modi also attended. Although a face-to-face meeting had been scheduled on the sidelines in Kananaskis, Trump left the summit early, and the two leaders instead connected over the phone.

In a video statement from Kananaskis, India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri clarified that Modi had categorically told Trump there was no discussion of a potential US-India trade deal or any US mediation in the India-Pakistan dispute. Misri explained that the ceasefire talks had taken place directly between the Indian and Pakistani militaries through established channels and were initiated by Pakistan.

According to Misri, Prime Minister Modi firmly conveyed to Trump that India neither accepts nor will ever accept any third-party mediation in its conflict with Pakistan.

Moreover, the report added, "And it is also the tale of an American president with his eye on a Nobel Prize, running smack into the immovable third rail of Indian politics: the conflict with Pakistan".

As per the NYT, Trump’s decision to impose a 25% tariff on India for purchasing Russian oil suggests the move was punitive rather than policy-driven.

Quoting Richard Rossow, chair of India at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, the report mentioned that the 25% tariff move was about ‘more than just Russia’.