India, Feb. 13 -- The Donald Trump administration wants to see India purchase more American defence equipment, prioritise American defence technology, buy more American energy products, and move towards a "fair" trade deal by the end of this year, a senior Trump administration official has said. The official added that India's "early body signals" on trade were positive, and conversations with India on procuring several US defence systems were proceeding in a positive direction.

Speaking to reporters in the run-up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with Trump, the senior administration official recalled Trump's personal bonhomie with Modi, Trump's support to India during the border crisis with China in 2020, and claimed that withi...