Washington: Corporate leaders along with two influential US senators have called for strengthening ties with India, including in the defense sector.
"We want India and the United States to be best friends with the deepest relationships," Senator Steve Daines said on Monday.
He was speaking amid a heated exchange of words between John Chambers and Senator Dan Sullivan during the annual leadership summit of the US India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF).
“I think it is very important globally that we have clarity about who the good guys are and how we want to maintain these relationships and strengthen the relationships. And the good guys are the United States and India,” the senator from Montana said.“China is watching what we are doing to India,” Danes said.
Senator Dan Sullivan said many of these countries are motivated by historical grievances. He said, "I think this ... new era, this is really a return to the era of authoritarian aggression, which will be with us for years and decades to come."
There is a need to deepen, broaden and deepen relations in various areas of the Quad, he said, referring to the grouping of the US, India, Japan and Australia.
He said, "For me, the good news that exists between the US-India relationship on the defense side can cover all the aspects that we need in terms of technologies, but also what we need in terms of basic warfighting capability.,
Sullivan said India and the United States now have a much greater strategic experience. “For me, the good news that exists between the US-India relationship on the defense side can cover all the aspects that we need in terms of technologies, but also what we need in terms of basic warfighting capability. First of all, it's really interesting to see how it happened, but combatant commands are the top joint force,'' he said, adding that the US needs help in this area.
“Our navy is shrinking. Our capacity to produce naval warships has diminished.We are facing a huge crisis not only in naval shipbuilding. But the Navy maintains the ships. Normally U.S. Navy ships have to come back to the United States for heavy-duty maintenance,” he said.
USISPF President John Chambers said artificial intelligence (AI) gives both countries an opportunity to come together and have a holistic vision of what is going to happen.
“It's really important to recognize that we are in this new era of authoritarian aggression led by Xi Jinping and Putin and the Ayatollahs in Iran and Kim Jong-un in North Korea.They are all working together.
“When we said a year ago that India's GDP would be the largest in the world, many people were surprised. For me, it was simple. You have an identity. You look at the age of the population, you look at the ongoing minimums, and it was inevitable. But when you look at what can be done together over the next 10 years, you begin to see a country that will lay a foundation with America as its strategic partner to change the world like never before. Has not been done,” Chambers said. ,
“India will not only become the world's number one economy, but India will probably by the end of this century, and I think this will be India's future century, 90 percent larger than China's GDP, and possibly 30 percent larger than America's. Big percentage,” he said.
“It is important that this relationship is not only defined on technology, defined on geopolitics, defined on economic opportunity, but more importantly it is defined on a people-to-people basis.We have approximately 5.1 million Indian Americans in the United States and approximately 1.2 million on H-1B visas,” said Mukesh Aghi, USISPF President and CEO.
Henry Kravis, co-founder and co-executive chairman of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., was honored with the 2024 Global Leadership Award for his unwavering commitment to enhancing US-India relations.
"We want India and the United States to be best friends with the deepest relationships," Senator Steve Daines said on Monday.
He was speaking amid a heated exchange of words between John Chambers and Senator Dan Sullivan during the annual leadership summit of the US India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF).
“I think it is very important globally that we have clarity about who the good guys are and how we want to maintain these relationships and strengthen the relationships. And the good guys are the United States and India,” the senator from Montana said.“China is watching what we are doing to India,” Danes said.
Senator Dan Sullivan said many of these countries are motivated by historical grievances. He said, "I think this ... new era, this is really a return to the era of authoritarian aggression, which will be with us for years and decades to come."
There is a need to deepen, broaden and deepen relations in various areas of the Quad, he said, referring to the grouping of the US, India, Japan and Australia.
He said, "For me, the good news that exists between the US-India relationship on the defense side can cover all the aspects that we need in terms of technologies, but also what we need in terms of basic warfighting capability.,
Sullivan said India and the United States now have a much greater strategic experience. “For me, the good news that exists between the US-India relationship on the defense side can cover all the aspects that we need in terms of technologies, but also what we need in terms of basic warfighting capability. First of all, it's really interesting to see how it happened, but combatant commands are the top joint force,'' he said, adding that the US needs help in this area.
“Our navy is shrinking. Our capacity to produce naval warships has diminished.We are facing a huge crisis not only in naval shipbuilding. But the Navy maintains the ships. Normally U.S. Navy ships have to come back to the United States for heavy-duty maintenance,” he said.
USISPF President John Chambers said artificial intelligence (AI) gives both countries an opportunity to come together and have a holistic vision of what is going to happen.
“It's really important to recognize that we are in this new era of authoritarian aggression led by Xi Jinping and Putin and the Ayatollahs in Iran and Kim Jong-un in North Korea.They are all working together.
“When we said a year ago that India's GDP would be the largest in the world, many people were surprised. For me, it was simple. You have an identity. You look at the age of the population, you look at the ongoing minimums, and it was inevitable. But when you look at what can be done together over the next 10 years, you begin to see a country that will lay a foundation with America as its strategic partner to change the world like never before. Has not been done,” Chambers said. ,
“India will not only become the world's number one economy, but India will probably by the end of this century, and I think this will be India's future century, 90 percent larger than China's GDP, and possibly 30 percent larger than America's. Big percentage,” he said.
“It is important that this relationship is not only defined on technology, defined on geopolitics, defined on economic opportunity, but more importantly it is defined on a people-to-people basis.We have approximately 5.1 million Indian Americans in the United States and approximately 1.2 million on H-1B visas,” said Mukesh Aghi, USISPF President and CEO.
Henry Kravis, co-founder and co-executive chairman of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., was honored with the 2024 Global Leadership Award for his unwavering commitment to enhancing US-India relations.
