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TRUMP 2.0 PRESIDENCY

In Quad We Trust! What the inauguration of new

President means for India-US strategic relations

Potential for collaboration between India and US unprecedented as Trump set

to begin term: Former Prasar Bharti CEO writes in Baltimore Sun

OUR BUREAU
New Delhi/Washington, DC
n an unprecedented development, the Foreign
Ministers of the Quad nations are to be pres-
Ient in Washington DC for the inaugural cere-
mony of US President-elect Donald Trump. “The
Quad Foreign Ministers Meeting is expected to
be in Washington, DC for the inaugural ceremony
of President Trump...We will share the further de-
tails,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in
the weekly press briefing today.
The ceremonial event is set to take place on
Monday (January 20), approximately two weeks
after Trump’s electoral college win was certified by
the US Congress.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Quad
Leaders’ Summit in the United States last year.
The summit was held in President Joe Biden’s
hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. PM Modi,
along with President Biden, Australian PM An-
thony Albanese and then Japanese PM Fumio Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sand art on Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Kishida, agreed to further enhance cooperation
and work towards a safe and secure Indo-Pacific. with the message “Making America Great Again” at Puri beach in Odisha recently (ANI)
Now, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar
will represent India at the swearing-in ceremony of the Advanced Television Systems Committee’s As democratic partners, India and the US
of Donald Trump as the 47th US President. He Business Advisory Council, in his article noted have shared interest in media resilience and integ-
will attend the ceremony at the invitation of the that, understanding the transformation of India rity. The digital age has increased the risks posed
Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee. “On the invi- under PM Modi is critical for American policy- by misinformation, deepfakes and algorithmic
tation of the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee, makers, opinion leaders and citizens. biases. By using ATSC 3.0 and D2M into the me-
External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishan- India and US, with deep roots in the principles dia ecosystems, the two nations can lead the fight
kar will represent the Government of India at the of freedom and democracy, face shared challenges against these threats.
Swearing-In Ceremony of President-Elect Donald like safeguarding free speech, combating misinfor- A joint task force focused on media resilience
J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States mation and ensuring that technological advances could create ethical standards and make tools to
of America,” the MEA said in a statement. bolster instead of undermine democratic institu- ensure authenticity and integrity of content in the
Donald Trump won the US presidential elec- tions, he argued. face of disinformation from foreign actors. India’s
tions in November last year. He won 312 electoral Vempati stated that India under PM Modi’s expertise in digital public goods and US innova-
votes against Harris’ 226 votes. governance focused on digital inclusion, has shown tion in frontier technologies make a natural syn-
With this, Trump became only the second US the world the role technology can play as a democ- ergy. Both nations together can lead global efforts
President to serve two non-consecutive terms. ratizing force. In line with US’ strategic interests, to defend democracy against foreign interference
Trump winning the popular vote also made him the two nations can together lead the way in har- through secure broadcasting and misinformation
the first Republican to win the popular vote since nessing media, technology and governance inno- detection, according to The Baltimore Sun report.
George W Bush in 2004. vations to uphold and advance democratic values. Shashi Shekhar Vempati stated that the con-
As US, under the incoming administration According to Vempati, the new Trump ad- vergence of interests between India under PM
of Donald Trump, and India under Prime Minis- ministration gives hope to yet another point of Modi’s leadership and US under Trump’s adminis-
ter Narendra Modi’s third term look to navigate technological convergence between India and tration is more than a strategic alignment. Accord-
a transformative era, the potential for collabora- the US with the potential to strengthen democ- ing to him, it is an opportunity to lead by example
tion between two nations has never been greater, racy. Direct-to-mobile broadcasting, or D2M, is in redefining democracy for the 21st century, cre-
Shashi Shekhar Vempati, former CEO of Prasar a new technology using the ATSC 3.0 broadcast ating a shared vision of democratic and technolog-
Bharati wrote in his opinion column in The Bal- standard, is a case in point on geo-political con- ical leadership. The two nations can build a world
timore Sun. vergence through transformative technologies for where democracy thrives, technology uplifts and
Shashi Shekhar Vempati, who is a member democracy, The Baltimore Sun reported. freedom endure.

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