National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan discussed boosting military ties with India during a visit to the country this week to prepare for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first official state visit to the US.
The White House said while Sullivan was in India from June 13-14, he reviewed “preparations for the upcoming official state visit of the Prime Minister, and discussed a range of strategic, regional, and bilateral issues including steps to advance the strategic technology and defense partnership between the United States and India.”
Modi has frequently visited the US since becoming prime minister, but a state visit carries more prestige as it involves a formal invitation from the president and a state dinner. President Biden recently hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol for a state visit, highlighting the administration’s emphasis on the Asia Pacific region.
The US is working to forge stronger military ties with India as part of its strategy against China. In 2020, the two nations signed a military pact that allows the US to share satellite data with India, helping New Delhi with surveillance of Chinese troops along the disputed border in the Himalayas, known as the Line of Actual Control.
The Biden administration is looking to sell more weapons to India in hopes of weaning New Delhi off Russian military equipment. Sources told Reuters that ahead of Modi’s visit, India’s Defense Ministry approved the procurement of 31 US-made armed MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones.
The US had been pushing India to approve the deal, which is worth over $3 billion. The sale is expected to be announced during Modi’s visit, along with the US approval of manufacturing General Electric’s engines in India for the country’s domestically produced fighter jets.
Imo, within 100 years?
At their present pace?
India and China will be the only two superpowers in the world.
America will be third and everyone else behind them.
Have you checked their demographics? India is sound China faces some Japan like problems on steroids – they may be able to avoid disaster, but they will almost certainly stagnate if not worse. The US unless it gets to be much less attractive is the one western state with decent demographics and prospects for replacing what it fails to reproduce.
The Biden administration is looking to sell more weapons to India
Biden will be out soon enough, just like Trump was, and uncle sam will have a brand new face to despise. so is uncle sam just a middleman between MIC (Raytheon et-al) and the world or does uncle sam first purchase the weapons from MIC and then dole them out as he sees fit.
I read somewhere that India’s toymakers are making some big moves into our market by securing some contracts from retailers like Walmart to replace Chinese made goods because of Washington’s decision we need to stop having China make everything for us.
The article, written for a Indian audience shared they aren’t quite ready for to compete with more technical goods like cars but just wait….
India’s manufacturers are trying to take market share from the Chinese…
Enter the US and we want to take market share in regards to weapons of war from India’s main suppliers Russia and France.
Quite the contrast.
I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot from India on the “low-end manufacturing” scene over the next few years.
Back in the ’70s, all the ultra-cheap electronics and such were made in Japan. Then Japan moved toward more of an emphasis on cars, newer rather than just cheaper tech, etc., and China became the “get it made, cheap” place. Now China is well into its own moves up the chain, so India is likely the next place to get e.g. dollar store charging cables, cheap toys, flip-flops, etc.
The story was about their entry into the US toy market via huge contracts from Walmart, Costco and other huge retailers because a effort to get rid of the “made in China” label on their shelves.
They then went into how they’ll expand into more tehnical goods as they learn our market and how to meet our wants/needs.
It appears there’s a huge shift involving tax codes and regulations just as Washington did when they decided on offshoring to China would raise all boats and other things their happyspeak entails and is not quite what they told us would happen.
Washington has to decide the winners as they replace China as our manufacturer and it appears India be one of them.
India plays both sides…!? This doesn’t go with BRICS agenda…!
Logically, given recent history, their safety resides in triangulating Russia (oil), China (B&R), and US (secsurity).
Buying arms does not mean you’re totally secure…!
Structurally considered arms purchase is an informal military alliance.
Indians worship western white people, it’s their colonial mentality that is now in their DNA
Thank you for your strong entry in “dumbest thing Tom read this week.”
Hey I hear this from Indians themselves all the time, even respected diplomats like MK Bhadrakumar has expressed similar sentiments
https://twitter.com/BhadraPunchline/status/1672660110999429125
Just after India boosted its military cooperation with Russia.
India will do what’s good for India, unlike what Wash. does for America.
“US, India Working to Boost Military Cooperation”
Big mistake for India to do anything with the evil empire called America.