The Indian government will face no trouble boosting ties with the United States under Joe Biden due to the strong element of bipartisan support for the bilateral relationship, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday.
“I am very confident that we will pick up where we left off (with the Donald Trump administration), we have done so for the last four administrations,” Jaishankar said while participating in an online discussion hosted by the Think Tank Center for International Governance. Innovation and Gateway House.
“I think that will be the case here as well, and I say that because within American politics, we are not just dealing with the administration of the day, we also tend to deal with Congress. American politics, by its nature, has very strong elements of bipartisanship, “he said.
President-elect Biden “is no stranger to India and the relationship” and has been served by India in his previous roles as vice president in the Barack Obama administration and as a senior Democratic member and chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, Jaishankar said. .
“He (Biden) is a big part of this period in which American Indian relations underwent a radical transformation, reasonably dating back to former President Bill Clinton’s visit to India in 2000,” he said.
“You had four presidents and you really can’t find more different people: Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. But an issue and a relationship that everyone was committed to was the relationship with India, ”he added.
There is a “very strong element of structural predictability and a certain drag” in the relationship between India and the United States, Jaishankar said, adding that the two countries are natural partners.
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