Rajnath Singh seeks out US companies for co-development, co-production

 

Safeguard Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday (neighborhood time) said that he has spoke to the US organizations and gear makers for co-advancement and co-creation in India.

In a selective meeting with ANI in Washington DC, Singh expressed that during the US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialog, the US answered decidedly to India's arrangement of "Atmanirbharta (independence)".

"Taking everything into account, they answered emphatically on 'Atmanirbharta' (self-reliance)'… no cynicism in talks," he expressed.

"I have spoke to the American public, their organizations, hardware makers that they are welcome in India while calling upon them for co-advancement and co-creation in India," he added.

Responding to the US looking at giving reasonable safeguard frameworks, Singh said, "Value moderateness will help just when we require, or might produce…We at any point will get it from outside when it's required…"

Talking on India's reliance on Russian extra parts and the issues India could look in the future due to the Russian-Ukrainian struggle, that's what he said "India can suitably manage a wide range of issues and difficulties".

Responding to the difference in watch in Pakistan, Singh said that he wished the new Prime Minister (Shebaz Sharif) all the outcome in controling illegal intimidation in his country.

Prominently, Shehbaz Sharif was chosen as the 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday after the ouster of Imran Khan through a no-certainty movement in the National Assembly.

In the mean time, the US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialog between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh was hung on Monday in Washington.

Coronavirus: India part of initiative on integrating science into response

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India is a piece of a US-drove worldwide activity to share data on coordinating science into coronavirus reaction, as indicated by a White House proclamation.
Other than the US and India, the UK, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea are a piece of the activity. The subsequent telephone call by the science pastors and boss guides of these nations was hung on Wednesday and it was met by the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Dr Kelvin Droegemeier.
"Following the primary (phone call) a week ago, we'll keep progressing successive logical discretion," the White House said in the announcement.
During the subsequent telephone call, members upheld endeavors to make accessible COVID-19 (coronavirus maladies) important friend surveyed distributions, information, and related research in PubMed Central and other freely available stores right away.
The nations under the activity likewise consented to make accessible auspicious information and distributions for tending to developing irresistible ailment episodes.
Taking note of that man-made reasoning (AI) can be utilized to sort out and incorporate certain information and data to assist this procedure, the members attested that to guarantee openness, in a perfect world, information ought to be scattered in machine and comprehensible arrangements, with expansive rights for re-use and optional investigations.

As per the White House, AI instruments and investigations ought to likewise be made freely accessible in a convenient way, the members said....Read More

Trade is a challenge in relationship between India, US: Ambassador Shringla

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Trade is one of the challenges in the relationship between India and the US, a top Indian envoy said, exuding confidence that the two nations will soon be able to reach conclusions that are mutually beneficial and satisfactory.
"One of the issues (challenges) is trade. As the US seeks to recalibrate its trading relationships with not just India but with countries across the globe, we are happy to engage in that effort, Indian Ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan Shringla said at The Heritage Foundation think-tank on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump during their meetings in Osaka, Japan, in June on the margins of the G-20 Summit directed their officials to address issues related to trade, Shringla noted.
Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are expected to meet soon in this regard, the ambassador said without indicating the dates.
That meeting would enable us to reach conclusions that are mutually beneficial and satisfactory, he said.
Observing that the two countries will have other issues like this as they go along, Shringla said, I have no doubt that we have both the mechanisms and the required political will to address these issues.
What is important that India-US is a strategic partnership and the momentum of that partnership has to be sustained, he asserted.
"It has to be seen in a long-term perspective and one that has the inerrant basis on which we can take this relationship forward," Shringla said.

 He asserted that this relationship should not be seen in a short-term perspective....Read More

US Congressman apologises for Trump's 'embarrassing' remark on Kashmir

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An influential Democratic Congressman on Tuesday apologised to India's US envoy for President Donald Trump's "embarrassing" remarks on Kashmir, while several others came out in support of New Delhi's established stand against any third-party role on the issue.
"I just apologized to Indian Ambassador Harsh Shringla for Trump's amateurish and embarrassing mistake," Congressman Brad Sherman tweeted hours after Trump's stunning claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought his mediation or arbitration efforts to resolve the Kashmir issue.
India quickly rejected his claims.
For the past 70 years, India has consistently resisted any third-party mediation proposal, and for over a decade now, the US has been reiterating that Kashmir is a bilateral issue.
"Everyone who knows anything about foreign policy in South Asia knows that #India consistently opposes third-party mediation re Kashmir. Everyone knows PM Modi would never suggest such a thing (sic)," tweeted Sherman, who has been closely following the development in South Asia for past few decades.
"Trump's statement is amateurish and delusional. And embarrassing, said Sherman who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on Asia, the Pacific and Non-Proliferation.

 Later in the evening, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wells in a tweet said that Kashmir is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan. "While Kashmir is a bilateral issue for both parties to discuss, the Trump administration welcomes Pakistan and India sitting down and the United States stands ready to assist," she tweeted...Read More

Govt sources refute Trump's claim, says India's tariffs are not that high

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India's taxes are not unreasonably high contrasted with other creating nations, government sources told Reuters on Thursday, responding to United States President Donald Trump's call to pull back what he said were high levies.
Prior Trump tweeted that he anticipated gathering Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 summit in Japan, however said that for a considerable length of time India had put "high duties against the United States". Including: "This is unsatisfactory and the duties must be pulled back!" This month, India slapped higher duties on 28 US items in counter for Washington's withdrawal this long stretch of tax unhindered commerce for certain Indian merchandise.
India's duties are in accordance with the World Trade Organization administers, the administration sources stated, including that US levies a few things were a lot higher than India's.
"I look forward to speaking with Prime Minister Modi about the fact that India, for years having put very high tariffs against the United States, just recently increased the tariffs even further," Trump said on Twitter. "This is unacceptable and the tariffs must be withdrawn!" said Trump, who will meet Modi at this week's G20 summit in Japan.
Trump's remarks could further worsen a trade row that has led to tit-for-tat tariffs from India and the United States and created an unease over the depth of their security alliance.

 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was in New Delhi on Wednesday, sought to reduce heightened trade tension with India, promising a renewed focus on negotiating better ties, but giving few specifics of how they would overcome disputes over trade and investment.Trade between the United States and India stood at about $142.1 billion in 2018.

Trump promoted strategic India-US relations in sustained manner: Report

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The Trump administration has worked to make India a more prominent part of its regional strategy, a top American think-tank has said in a report, lauding President Donald Trump for promoting strategic ties with India in a "sustained manner".

Asserting that the Trump administration has maintained the success story of US-India relations initiated by George W Bush, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in its report gives the US President a high B+ grade when it comes to America's ties with India.

The CFR in its special report Trump's Foreign Policy are Better Than They Seem said President Trump "deserves credit for promoting strategic ties with India in a sustained manner".

The Trump administration has worked to make India a more prominent part of its regional strategy. After changing the name of US Pacific Command to US Indo-Pacific Command in May 2018, the United States is now planning its first tri-service exercise with the Indian military, said the report authored by former US Ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill.

President Trump's inclinations, as conveyed through his South Asia strategy, which accords primacy to India; his release of advanced weapons systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, for sale to New Delhi; and his decision to treat India on par with NATO allies where strategic technology release is concerned are all viewed as favourable toward India, it said.


The report said that New Delhi has accordingly responded with bold initiatives of its own."Although it has not entirely endorsed the Trump administration's Indo-Pacific strategy, it has applauded the strategy's declared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific regiona concept first articulated by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with whom Prime Minister Narendra Modi enjoys an exceptionally close relationship," the CFR said.