US President-elect Joe Biden nominated Antony Blinken as Secretary of State to serve in administration
Washington:
In a way endorsing the India policy of outgoing US President Donald Trump, a top incoming Biden Administration official said India has been a bipartisan success story of successive American administrations. India has been a bipartisan success story of our successive administrations, Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken told members of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
Responding to a Senator s question during his marathon confirmation hearing that lasted more than four hours, Blinken said this relationship started towards the end of the Clinton administration.
Kenneth Juster and MM Naravane discussed issues of mutual interest, the Indian Army wrote in a tweet.
New Delhi:
US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster and Rear Admiral Eileen Haskins Laubacher, Defence Attache at US Embassy in India on Monday called on Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane and discussed issues of mutual interest. Kenneth Ian Juster Ambassador of USA to India along with Rear Admiral Eileen Haskins Laubacher DefenseAttache Embassy of the USA called on General MM Naravane COAS and discussed issues of mutual interest, the Indian Army wrote in a tweet.
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Earlier, on January 6, Kenneth Juster, in his farewell address on the US-India partnership, said that the US recognises India s desire to produce more of its military equipment within the country and it looks forward to growing partnership in this effort.
‘Forced’ localisation presents trade barriers with India, says US Congressional report
January 11, 2021
The new Biden administration’s priority on bilateral trade issues remains uncertain
The US is continuing to press India to address its “forced” localisation practices, including data storage, domestic testing requirements and domestic content, which it views as presenting barriers to trade with India, according to a recent US Congressional report.
“Adding to US concerns are India’s restrictive localisation rules for certain financial data flows, which affect companies such as Visa and MasterCard,” the report by independent Congressional Research Service (CRS), which serves the US Congress by providing research and analysis contributing to national legislature, said.
10 January 2021
Author: Michael Kugelman, Wilson Center
US president-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy will be very different from that of President Donald Trump. Biden has vowed to bring back US global leadership, value international diplomacy, restore US alliances and promote democracy and human rights abroad. He intends to undo the dramatic and in his view deleterious changes that the Trump administration made to US foreign policy.
Yet, while Biden may engineer a full-scale foreign policy reset, his administration’s likely South Asia policy will be an anomaly a rare example of considerable continuity with Trump.
Biden, like Trump, strongly supports a withdrawal from Afghanistan. As vice president to Barack Obama, he was a vocal opponent of his boss’s troop surge.