Narendra Modi and Joe Biden
When Newly elected President of America Joe Biden arrives at the White House, how will this affect the relationship between India and America? This question is being asked in political circles.
Amidst these discussions, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a phone conversation with Joe Biden on Tuesday.
Giving information about his conversation on Twitter, Narendra Modi wrote, “Congratulations to Biden on the phone. We expressed our commitment to the Indo-US strategic partnership and discussed our common priority issues – Kovid – 19 pandemic, Climate change, and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. “
The Indian Prime Minister also spoke to the newly elected Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris. Narendra Modi’s relationship with the current US President Donald Trump was quite cordial and in view of this, there are speculations that Narendra Modi’s relationship with Biden will be more formal.
However, analysts also believe that both countries have come so close in the last two decades at the business level that there is no going back.
A virtual seminar was organized by the Indo American Friendship Association on the issue of how the US-India relationship will be affected after the arrival of American power in the hands of Joe Biden and Kamala Harrisas.
In this discussion, Surendra Kumar, the founding president and former diplomat of the Indo American Friendship Association, said, “Under the leadership of Biden-Harris, the relationship between America and India will improve. The style may change, but the relationship will improve radically. Mutual business will increase One change will be that now the decision related to America’s foreign policy will not be found on Twitter. “
At the same time, former diplomat Ronen Sen has also hoped to improve the mutual relations between the two countries. Ronen Sen said, “I think Biden will pursue the same things in foreign policy that were going on in the time of Donald Trump. There may be a slight change in methods but more or less the same.”
Joe Biden
Ronen Sen had the opportunity to meet George Bush and Barack Obama and Joe Biden several times during his tenure, but he met Donald Trump only once. But he feels that Biden will pursue the foreign policy of America during Donald Trump’s time, because there is no change in the foreign policies of America for the last two decades. How India and America will have mutual relations, it is being seen by linking them with Sino-American relations.
Ronen Sen believes on this aspect, ‘India will be watching this aspect. The US is also competing with China and countering it as well. But there will be no conflict situation. At the same time, India will also remain important for America from the geo-political point of view, but on the matter of China, they will not support our territorial claim nor will we deploy army for us.
However Ronen Sen believes that mutual cooperation between India and America in the defense sector can increase. According to him, a lot of progress has been made during this period in the last four years, but still a lot of things are pending. The agreement reached between the two countries of 2005 was not fully adhered to, since 1987, the two countries began to increase cooperation in defense.
By the way, India is among the closest allies of America in defense matters.
According to Major General Ashok Mehta, the current relationship between India and America has reached a better position than the friendship of Indo-Soviet Union of the 1970s. They say that in 1975, only a military training program was conducted between India and the United States and to date, both countries conduct 300 military exercises together throughout the year.
Major General Ashok Mehta says, “India’s relations with the US have improved in defense technology, but there is still a buyer-seller situation between the two countries. No work towards military technology transfer and Make in India Has happened. India should work in this direction during Biden’s tenure