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India major strategic partner: US
WASHINGTON: The Obama Administration has identified India as a major strategic partner in the new international order as it unveiled its new National Security Strategy that gives top priority to deepening its partnership with two other major powers China and Russia.
"If you take a nation like India in particular, too, that's only enhanced by the fact that India is a democracy, and that they're a nation that we share democratic values with as well, which I think informs the depth of the strategic partnership that we're pursuing with them, both in the region and around the world," said Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor.
The 52-page document submitted to the Congress said that the US will continue to deepen its cooperation with other 21st century centres of influence including China, India and Russia on the basis of mutual interests and mutual respect.
"We think it's critical that if you look at China, if you look at India, as nations that, of course, have had a dramatic economic growth in recent years, play an increasingly important role in the regions that they're in but also on global issues, that we see expanded and deepened cooperation between the United States and those nations as essential to addressing our priorities," Rhodes said in response to a question on Thursday.
"I think that, again, if you stack up the key issues, they're going to define the trajectory of the next 10 or 20 years, whether it's terrorism, global economy, climate change, non-proliferation, that we need to be enlisting the cooperation of India, of China, to address those issues.
So, you know, I think we do put an important focus on that, as part of our engagement," Rhodes said.
The top White House official said, "In the administration's approach more broadly, a focus that we place on our engagement with those countries, both on a bilateral basis and globally.
He argued the US actually shares more interests in common with a range of nations including India than has been reflected in the depth of our cooperation in the past.
"India, we've had very good cooperation with. But if you take a nation like China, I think that, as issues become increasingly global, that we have more mutual interests, in some respects, than our habits of cooperation have indicated," he said.
India major strategic partner: US - US - World - The Times of India
Obama reaffirms partnership with India
WASHINGTON: The Obama Administration has identified India as a major strategic partner in the new international order as it unveiled its new National Security Strategy that gives top priority to deepening its partnership with two other major powers China and Russia.
"If you take a nation like India in particular, too, that's only enhanced by the fact that India is a democracy, and that they're a nation that we share democratic values with as well, which I think informs the depth of the strategic partnership that we're pursuing with them, both in the region and around the world," said Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor.
The 52-page document submitted to the Congress said that the US will continue to deepen its cooperation with other 21st century centres of influence including China, India and Russia on the basis of mutual interests and mutual respect.
"We think it's critical that if you look at China, if you look at India, as nations that, of course, have had a dramatic economic growth in recent years, play an increasingly important role in the regions that they're in but also on global issues, that we see expanded and deepened cooperation between the United States and those nations as essential to addressing our priorities," Rhodes said in response to a question on Thursday.
"I think that, again, if you stack up the key issues, they're going to define the trajectory of the next 10 or 20 years, whether it's terrorism, global economy, climate change, non-proliferation, that we need to be enlisting the cooperation of India, of China, to address those issues.
So, you know, I think we do put an important focus on that, as part of our engagement," Rhodes said.
The top White House official said, "In the administration's approach more broadly, a focus that we place on our engagement with those countries, both on a bilateral basis and globally.
He argued the US actually shares more interests in common with a range of nations including India than has been reflected in the depth of our cooperation in the past.
"India, we've had very good cooperation with. But if you take a nation like China, I think that, as issues become increasingly global, that we have more mutual interests, in some respects, than our habits of cooperation have indicated," he said.
India major strategic partner: US - US - World - The Times of India
Obama reaffirms partnership with India
