Blinken said US President Biden has spent a lot of time dealing directly with Prime Minister Modi.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said there was now growing strategic convergence between the United States and India and said New Delhi built its partnership with Moscow out of necessity as the US was not in a position to do so before.
“In the case of India, there’s a relationship that goes back decades. And Russia, for India, was necessarily a partner of choice when we weren’t in a position to be a partner,” he told lawmakers on Wednesday.
“Now we’re investing in that effort. I think there’s a growing strategic convergence between the United States and India,” Blinken said.
“And of course China is a big part of that,” Blinken said in response to a question from Senator William Hagerty during a congressional hearing by the Senate Subcommittee on State Credit, Foreign Operations.
Hagerty had asked for Blinken’s views on the relationship between India and the US.
“What I see in front of us is something that I’m sure is very frustrating in the short term when we have our differences and you have to deal with that every day,” Hagerty said.
“But in the long run, I think the strategic partnership we have with India offers the opportunity to do more good in the 21st century,” he said.
Blinken said in response that he very much shares the senator’s perspective.
“I think this partnership has the potential to become one of the most important and fundamental partnerships we will have in the coming decades,” he said.
Blinken said US President Joe Biden has “spent a lot of time in direct contact with Prime Minister Modi and India’s leadership”.
“We have powered the Quad that brings India together with Australia and Japan and with us. This has been a very important means of strengthening our cooperation on a whole range of fronts with India,” he said.
“What’s interesting is that this is a moment of strategic inflection, by which I mean this. A number of countries are now rethinking some of their relationships and some of their interests, especially when it comes to their relationship with Russia,” the summit added. to. American diplomat.
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