(Madeline Yarbrough)

In conversation with Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead, Indian Minister of External Affairs Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar highlighted resilient supply chains, digital trust and transparency, and the prevention of production monopolies as key priorities for the United States–India relationship.

Important quotes from the event are below.

Key Insights

1. There is significant untapped potential in the India-US relationship.

John, there was something you said, which was: India and the United States have never really worked together. I think that is a very thoughtful observation because dealing with each other is not the same as working with each other. And in the past, we have always dealt with each other, sometimes not entirely happily. But working with each other is really uncharted territory. It is a territory which we have both entered in the last few years. 

2. The US and India are both invested in the rules-based international order.

We both want to see a certain stability and a certain set of rules and a certain, I would say, distribution of power, which is advantageous to both of us. And our interests are not clashing in that respect. So at the biggest picture level, I would say there's a very powerful case really for India and the US to work together.

3. For the future of technology manufacturing, the US needs partners, and India needs opportunities. 

And this . . . information-embedded economy, I think, has created a very powerful new convergence between us because, at a global level, the United States will need partners. India will need opportunities and possibilities. So to me . . . if you look at American priorities like iCET [the Initiative for Critical Emerging Technologies], the IRA [Inflation Reduction Act], and the Chips Act, I think these are all factors which will create a stronger sort of bonding.

Quotes may be edited for clarity and length. 

Go Deeper