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Modi, Trump vow India & US to have world's greatest armies: 10 developments

On Monday, PM Modi and President Trump held bilateral talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Manila, during which they discussed a range of key issues, including defence and security

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Manila: President Donald Trump, right, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands during a bilateral meeting at the ASEAN Summit at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017

Bhaswar Kumar New Delhi
India and the US have resolved that "two of the world’s great democracies should also have the world’s greatest militaries" following the bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on Monday in Manila, the Phillipines. 

US Secretary of Defense James Mattis appears to have been the first high-ranking American official to express this thought in explicit terms and now, it has been reproduced, verbatim, in a White House press handout following the Modi-Trump meeting. 

On Monday, PM Modi and President Trump held bilateral talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Manila, during which