3 big takeaways from Biden NSA Sullivan’s last India visit: Nuke boost, missile export and dual-use tech
FirstpostA look at three key takeaways from US NSA Jake Sullivan’s two-day visit to India during which he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, and a detailed discussion ahead of President Joe Biden administration handing over the charge to Donald Trump on January 20 US NSA Jake Sullivan meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to New Delhi. Source: X | @narendramodi As President Joe Biden’s administration prepares to handover the charge to Donald Trump, the United States has announced significant steps to remove long-standing regulations restricting civil nuclear cooperation between India’s top nuclear entities and US companies. “This will be an opportunity to turn the page on some of the frictions of past and create opportunities for entities that have been on restrictive lists in the US to come off those lists and enter into deep collaboration with the US, with our private sector, with our scientists and technologists, to move civil nuclear cooperation forward together,” a report by The Times of India quoted Sullivan as saying at an event at IIT-Delhi. 3 - US NSA warns on dual-use tech transfer, pitches for stronger export controls As a key architect of iCET initiatives, Sullivan expressed concerns about the transfer of dual-use technologies to Russia.