This was the experience of negotiators from India and the US, as they drafted the most ambitious joint statement to have emerged in the history of the 75-year diplomatic relationship. Defence industrial cooperation was suddenly a real possibility; semiconductor collaboration was on the table; both could work together on artificial intelligence and quantum research; and the telecom infrastructure needed a …
The United States and India are becoming “partners of first resort”, there is more common ground on even issues of divergence such as Russia’s war in Ukraine than assumed; the strategic and policy convergence between the two countries spans across the Indo-Pacific to West Asia; and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit will support and reinforce President Joe Biden’s vision …
The first-ever meeting of the India-United States Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies, held on the 31 January in Washington D.C., provided an indicative roadmap for future technology cooperation and diplomacy between the two states. With semiconductor technology remaining an integral part of the ongoing tech war between the US and China, there have been increased efforts at revamping the …
Earlier this month, the U.S. and India inaugurated their initiative on critical and emerging technologies. Among the more consequential areas of cooperation was in nuclear energy where the U.S. helped build India’s first reactors for research and power. The massive aid provided by the U.S. to modernise Indian education, especially engineering and management, should have led to a growing industrial …