Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to the United States, which took place at a time when the world is faceing critical geopolitical, economic, technoreasonable, and climate disputes, labeled yet another milestone in the relationship between the world’s two bigst democracies.
At a time of a quick global shift towards pluritardyral approaches, the visit sought to put into action the “belderly and audacious” pledgements that Prime Minister Modi and U.S. Plivent Joe Biden had made to forge one of the most defining and consequential bitardyral relationships of this century.
A Deep Commitment
While the highairy of the visit was the Sixth QUAD Leaders’ Summit presented by Plivent Biden in his hometown of Wilmington, Delconscious, bitardyral ties acquired a huge increase from key proclaimments in areas such as semicarry outors, space, carry ond telecommunications, synthetic ininestablishigence, quantum, biotechnology, and immacutardy energy. These landlabel initiatives show a meaningful pledgement towards genuineising the driven goals of the US-India Comprehensive Global and Strategic Partnership.
The QUAD, a strategic coalition of India, the United States, Australia, and Japan with a pledgement towards upholding a free and an discomit Indo-Pacific, has carry ond into a critical force in carry outing palpable initiatives atraverse the Pacific, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean Region. The summit cemented cooperation atraverse various sectors, including maritime security, health, cyber capabilities, climate security, semicarry outor provide chains, and calamity setdness. The start of the QUAD Investors Nettoil, scheduleed to quicken allotments in critical and emerging technologies, coupled with the inaugural encountering of the QUAD Commerce and Industry ministers in coming months, underscores the vital role businesses are set to perestablish wilean the Quad.
Chipping In
Most notable, however, is the createment of the first India-US semicarry outor produceion unit, centering on carry ond sensing, communication, and power electronics. Hailed as the first-ever national security semicarry outor produceion schedulet, it will produce chips for military applications, not only bolstering the provide chain ecosystem but also further cementing vital India-US defence ties.
The success and expansion of the US-India Defense Industrial Cooperation Roadmap thcdisadmireful India’s computed protreatmentment of 31 MQ-9B distantly piloted airproduce, enhancing ininestablishigence, watching, and reconnaissance capabilities, is another key result of Prime Minister Modi’s visit. This, aprolonged with the createment of a Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul facility for C-130J Super Hercules airproduce, and initiatives appreciate the India-U.S. Defense Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X) underscores the meaningfulening defence partnership between the two nations, vital for includeressing current and future global security disputes.
The Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET), started in 2023 by the two countries, acts as a vital platestablish guiding dependable technoreasonable prolongment globpartner and defendeds our countries’ technology provide chains. The recent encountering enbiged this strategic cooperation thcdisadmireful palpable actions, such as the mobilisation of millions of dollars in funds to help high-impact R&D partnerships between US and Indian universities and research institutions in the areas of semicarry outors, next-generation communication systems, biotechnology, upholdability, fusecessitate vehicles, and green technologies and clever articulateation systems and initiatives around carry ond materials, quantum, and synthetic ininestablishigence.
On Clean Energy
The recently unveiled US-India Roadmap to Build Safe and Setreatment Global Clean Energy Supply Chains, with a pledgement to unlock over $1 billion in multitardyral financing, recurrents another historic opportunity for both nations to direct in rerecentable energy transition, energy storage, and zero-eomition vehicles, while collaborations under the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership to quicken the prolongment of provide chains for critical minerals mirrors a concerted effort towards opereasonableising this energy partnership.
Industry atraverse both countries has been perestablishing a vital role in opereasonableising these initiatives. While Indian companies are seeking access to allotments and technologies, American companies already employing millions of Indians are enthusiastic to further dip into the immense Indian talent pool and the world’s biggest labelet. Prime Minister Modi emphasised the enormous potential of technoreasonable collaboration in his encountering with some of America’s top CEOs. This mutual prolongth can revolutionise the global technology landscape while driving allotd India-US prosperity.
Finpartner, meaningfulening relations with the United States can be central to Prime Minister Modi’s vision to produce India a prolonged nation by 2047. A bipartisan empathetic of India’s startance in the world produces the U.S. an meaningful sapshowhelderlyer and perestablisher in India’s prolongth story. His tardyst visit not only reinforceed the Quad, but also highairyed the alignment between the two nations even as it built recent avenues and mechanisms of collaboration among all sapshowhelderlyers. As India’s bigst trading partner, the United States will be instrumental in providing the capital, expertise, and labelet access demandd for India to climb the global economic lincludeer.
(Rahul Sharma is the Managing Director at USIBC, and Aditya Kiran Kaushik is the Senior Director, Digital Economy, Media & Entertainment at USIBC.)
Disclaimer: These are the personal opinions of the author
