India's Modi is guest of honor at Paris Bastille Day parade as Macron rebuffs human rights critics

France is staging a seduction campaign for visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, guest of honor at the annual Bastille Day parade Friday, as it looks to further strengthen cooperation on an array of topics ranging from climate to military sales and the strategic Indo-Pacific region. But human rights, seen as an increasingly critical subject for Modi’s India, was missing from the vast agenda. President Emmanuel Macron praised India in a speech Thursday evening before French defense officials as a “key partner" with a “determining” role. The European Parliament passed a resolution Thursday for “human rights to be integrated into all areas of the EU-India partnership.”