Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell spoke about a sustainable and lasting U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific region at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading think tank.
He was recently in India along with national security adviser Jake Sullivan for a much-anticipated visit that also happened to be the first trip by senior US officials to New Delhi during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third term.
Campbell also made a strong argument for a greater preference for increasing the admission of Indian students into STEM fields at American universities, rather than for students from China, who are not trusted in high-tech fields.
"The United States and India have launched an effort to step up defense industrial cooperation on jet engines and armored vehicles," Campbell said of ties with India in the context of the United States' sustained commitment to the Indo-Pacific region. .
"After working in India for decades, I can tell you that in my opinion, finally, the relationship between the end-use rate has reached escape velocity. I think we have a partnership that can be sustained and there is ambition in both Delhi and Washington. to take important next steps. We have worked together on a variety of other issues between the United States and India, including announcing new initiatives on which we will work together for the first time in the Indian Ocean."
Campbell was previously President Joe Biden's White House tsar for Indo-Pacific policy, which has seen this administration elevate the Quad platform with India, Australia and Japan to leadership level, launch the partnership between Australia, the UK and the US called AUKUS and deepen bilateral, trilateral and multilateral ties with Indo-Pacific countries with the shared goal of managing China's aggressive rise.
The jet engine cooperation that Campbell mentioned is the joint production of GE's F414 jet engine with HAL that was announced during Prime Minister Modi's state visit in June last year.
India and the United States are also in talks to co-produce Stryker armored infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs or infantry fighting vehicles). India is considering this vehicle as a replacement for its fleet of outdated Russian-made ICVs.
India and the United States cooperate on a wide range of issues and people-to-people dealings are one of the most important. Indian students at American universities are a key part of that. Indians represent the second largest group of foreign students and their numbers are growing rapidly.
Campbell's strong argument for greater admission of Indian students came in response to a question about what needs to be done to shore up the dwindling number of Chinese students. "Right now, the biggest increase we need to see in the future would be much larger numbers of Indian students coming to study at American universities in a variety of technologies and other fields more directly," he said.
He was recently in India along with national security adviser Jake Sullivan for a much-anticipated visit that also happened to be the first trip by senior US officials to New Delhi during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third term.
Campbell also made a strong argument for a greater preference for increasing the admission of Indian students into STEM fields at American universities, rather than for students from China, who are not trusted in high-tech fields.
"The United States and India have launched an effort to step up defense industrial cooperation on jet engines and armored vehicles," Campbell said of ties with India in the context of the United States' sustained commitment to the Indo-Pacific region. .
"After working in India for decades, I can tell you that in my opinion, finally, the relationship between the end-use rate has reached escape velocity. I think we have a partnership that can be sustained and there is ambition in both Delhi and Washington. to take important next steps. We have worked together on a variety of other issues between the United States and India, including announcing new initiatives on which we will work together for the first time in the Indian Ocean."
Campbell was previously President Joe Biden's White House tsar for Indo-Pacific policy, which has seen this administration elevate the Quad platform with India, Australia and Japan to leadership level, launch the partnership between Australia, the UK and the US called AUKUS and deepen bilateral, trilateral and multilateral ties with Indo-Pacific countries with the shared goal of managing China's aggressive rise.
The jet engine cooperation that Campbell mentioned is the joint production of GE's F414 jet engine with HAL that was announced during Prime Minister Modi's state visit in June last year.
India and the United States are also in talks to co-produce Stryker armored infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs or infantry fighting vehicles). India is considering this vehicle as a replacement for its fleet of outdated Russian-made ICVs.
India and the United States cooperate on a wide range of issues and people-to-people dealings are one of the most important. Indian students at American universities are a key part of that. Indians represent the second largest group of foreign students and their numbers are growing rapidly.
Campbell's strong argument for greater admission of Indian students came in response to a question about what needs to be done to shore up the dwindling number of Chinese students. "Right now, the biggest increase we need to see in the future would be much larger numbers of Indian students coming to study at American universities in a variety of technologies and other fields more directly," he said.
