Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Eli S Ratner said before the House Indo-Pacific Subcommittee on Wednesday that America’s relations with India have strengthened in many areas. Relations between the two countries are important for our vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific. The Pentagon said that India has more options because of its ties with Russia.
America has said that its relations with India are stronger than before. The Pentagon said that India has more options because of its ties with Russia. But recently, America has deepened relations with India by increasing its defense partnership, which was never there before. Said, our defense trade has increased to 20 billion dollars. We have recently signed an agreement to deliver 30 MQ9BS and BS.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Eli S Ratner said before the House Indo-Pacific Subcommittee on Wednesday that America’s relations with India have strengthened in many areas. Relations between the two countries are important for our vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific.
‘Strengthening ties in many areas including co-production’
Ratner said in response to questions from committee member Adam Smith that we are strengthening relationships in many areas, including co-production. That said, we have made major progress on some new projects on jet engines, armored vehicles to integrate our defense industrial base. These are some important steps through which we are deepening relations with India.
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Adam Smith said, I consider India important. India has relations with countries around the world, some of which are also our adversaries. We need to work harder to strengthen our relations with them. He asked Ratner how we would strengthen relations with India. On this, Ratner said that our relations in the private sector have increased, especially in the defense sector. He confirmed this by giving many examples.
