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according to an official statement in the four months between January
released by the US Department of and April 2023. “Defense, technolo-
Defense. This visit, it said, provides gy and economic cooperation grew
an opportunity to further deepen the significantly in scope. The Biden
“US-India Major Defense Partner- administration’s democracy summit,
ship as ties between the two countries Quad meetings, and bilateral meet-
enter a new and exciting chapter.” ings between various divisions and
According to US-India Strategic departments of the US and Indian
Partnership Forum (USISPF) state- governments show there will be no
ment since the seminal nuclear deal, lack of engagement at the highest
the US-India defense cooperation levels of government,” they said.
has only improved over the years. “Supplementing the high-level
The February meeting of Doval with cooperation, people-to-people ties
board members of USISPF under- will witness a revived enthusiasm
scored US defense companies’ com- thanks to Secretary of State Ant-
mitment to producing military hard- ony Blinken’s work to ease the visa
ware under the Government of India’s backlog in consulates in India. This
AtmanirbharBharat (Self-Reliant) will allow more Indian students and
initiative and, on the software side, professionals to travel to the US and
on advanced technologies in cyberse- back with ease,” they added.
curity and artificial intelligence (AI). NSA Ajit Doval with Indian Ambassador to the US Taranjit Sandhu and White House National The article noted that the biggest
Things are moving well between developments may not be govern-
the two countries in their respective Security Advisor to United States President Joe Biden Jake Sullivan during a reception at India ment to government. In April 2023,
capitals. In New Delhi this week, House in Washington DC (ANI) Apple opened its first store in India.
thanking External Affairs Minister Apple’s entry into India reflected
S Jaishankar for a “gracious wel- country -- home to more than 1.4 ocratic values and increasing con- the effort both to establish alterna-
come”, US Ambassador to India Eric billion people--and has had robust vergence of interests on bilateral, re- tives to China’s dominance of supply
Garcetti noted that the US-India economic growth for the past three gional and global issues. The regular chains and to gain a larger share of
partnership offers a lot of promise. decades, with GDP per capita having exchange of high-level political visits the market in a country that, accord-
Earlier in the day, Garcetti and Jais- risen by 245 per cent, reported Har- has steadily boosted bilateral rela- ing to the United Nations Population
hankar met to discuss the progress of vard Business Review. tions between the two countries. Fund, now has the world’s largest
the relationship between India-US. As India considers its own lead- According to an article in Com- population.
Eric Garcetti also lauded Prime ership in the world, it must look to- parative Connections, a triannual The White House coordinator
Minister Narendra Modi’s leader- ward becoming a stronger innovator e-Journal of bilateral relations in the for Indo-Pacific affairs, Kurt Camp-
ship and “transformative policies” in technology with a more compre- Indo-Pacific, the US-India partner- bell, early in 2023, singled out India
initiated by his government and said hensive capacity to move up the val- ship is on a steady upward trajectory as the major US diplomatic focus for
the two countries are increasing their ue chain in software and hardware. as a result of Washington and New the upcoming year. Speaking at an
collaboration around critical emerg- This necessitates a much closer and Delhi making a concerted effort to event, he said, “Our interests are to
ing technologies. “India is in such deeper relationship with America, move past Cold-War differences and see India playing an ever larger, re-
wonderful hands. With your leader- both at the governmental but also at toward advancing Indo-Pacific syner- sponsible role in almost everything
ship, with the transformative policies the private-sector level. gies. that we’re doing.” To that end, the
that you and this administration are India-US bilateral relations have Akhil Ramesh and Michael Ru- first four months of 2023 were a great
implementing together with the pub- developed into a “global strategic bin said in the article that the US-In- start, the article said.
lic sector and private sector and with partnership”, based on shared dem- dia partnership continued to expand In late April, the US Nation-
that community aspect that defines al Security Advisor Jake Sullivan,
everything that is part of India’s rise speaking to a packed audience at
right now. This is the most exciting Brookings Institution, clarified the
nexus in the world. The US-India re- administration’s agenda of creating
lationship is where it is at,” he said. new economic and trade coalitions
Meanwhile in Washington DC, and the risk of isolating traditional
India’s Ambassador to the US, allies and partners.
Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Thursday This paradigm shift in the con-
(local time) met US Congressman ceptualization of economic policy
James Clyburn and discussed av- in Washington DC, wherein trade
enues to strengthen the India-US policy and national security policy-
partnership in healthcare, digital, IT, making intersect at varying points to
and renewables. influence each other, “has support
As the United States’ concerns among historically protectionist trad-
about China grow, India shines as ers such as India”.
a promising alternative in supply The “New Washington Consen-
chains, innovation hubs, and joint sus,” as some analysts have described
ventures. As the world’s largest de- it, resonates in New Delhi, said Ra-
mocracy with an increasingly open mesh and Rubin.
economy and a strong technology With President Biden hosting
sector, it has the potential to operate Prime Minister Modi at the White
at scale. House this month, the US-India stra-
India is in a global sweet spot. Modi and Biden interact with each other at the 17th G20 Summit in Bali last year (ANI) tegic partnership is bound to move to
It is now the world’s most populous the next level.

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