US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin have said that India and the United States are investing together across sectors that will shape the future. In a joint Op-ed in a leading American daily newspaper, the two top officials described the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy as a latticework of bilateral and multilateral ties. They wrote that as part of the ties, the US and India are investing together across sectors such as Artificial Intelligence and semiconductors in addition to cooperation as members of the Quad. The officials said, President Joe Biden’s transformation of the US Indo-Pacific strategy and the results it has borne remain the most important and least-told stories of the foreign policy strategy advanced by President Biden and Vice President Harris. The Op-ed comes close on the heels of the eighth ministerial meeting of the Quad that took place in Tokyo last month.
Referring to China’s island and maritime disputes in the South China Sea, the two officials said, they are pushing back together against China’s dangerous brinkmanship in the region’s waterways.
