President Trump’s successful trip to India this week will develop a critical prospective alliance while undermining one of the most common criticisms leveled against this president: that Trump cares little for democratic values or for allies.

This was certainly not evident from Trump’s rhetoric and effort during his short visit. Instead, addressing more than 100,000 people in a packed Ahmedabad stadium, Trump offered a bright vision of future friendship between the world’s most powerful and its most populous democracies. As the BBC observed, “It was a good speech.”