In a fiery response to Donald Trump’s “dead economy” remark, Prime Minister Narendra Modi rallied Indians in Varanasi to go all-in on ‘swadeshi’ products. Modi warned of global instability and urged every political party to unite in making India the world’s third-largest economy. “We will buy only things made by Indians,” Modi declared, calling for a nationwide push to become truly ‘vocal for local’. With rising U.S.-India tensions over trade, will Modi’s economic nationalism change the game?

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