India, Feb. 11 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US vice president JD Vance on the margins of a dinner for world leaders attending the AI Action Summit in Paris, his first interaction with a member of the Trump administration ahead of a visit to Washington.

A video posted on social media by French President Emmanuel Macron showed Modi shaking hands with Vance at the Elysee Palace on Monday night and congratulating him on the Republican Party's victory in the US presidential election last November.

"Congratulations. Great, great victory," Modi said. Vance replied, "Thank you so much. So nice to see you."

When the two leaders addressed the AI Summit on Tuesday, Vance endorsed Modi's contention that humans cannot be replaced by technolo...