Expanding their multi-level engagement, India and US will maintain the primary assembly of Strategic Trade Dialogue on June 4-5 to implement the outcomes of the initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) by streamlining export controls, enhancing high-tech commerce and facilitating tech switch between the 2 international locations.
File photograph of US President Joe Biden and Indian PM Narendra Modi
The first iCET dialogue between the National Security Advisors of the 2 international locations befell on January 31, and the choice to carry the strategic commerce assembly was taken when US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo got here to India for relaunching the bilateral business dialogue on March 10.
Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra shall be travelling to the US early subsequent month to satisfy Under-Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan Estevez for the strategic commerce dialogue assembly in addition to to make last-minute preparations for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s June 22 go to to the White House to satisfy US President Joseph Biden.
PM Modi is anticipated to satisfy President Biden in the course of the May 19-21 G-7 assembly in Japan, then in the course of the QUAD summit on May 24, and the 2 leaders shall be crossing one another at Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea on May 22 as a part of essential engagement of the Far Pacific nations. While the US is anticipated to open up defence cooperation with PNG to counter the increasing footprint of Chinese safety within the Solomon Islands subsequent door, PM Modi shall be extending a $100 million credit score line to the Island nation as a part of India’s complete engagement with the Far Pacific.
As part of India and the US engagement, notably within the Indo-Pacific, Kwatra is anticipated to make sure that all hurdles underneath International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR) are smoothened for US firms to do interact in joint and manufacturing of hi-tech methods similar to plane engines, munition applied sciences and armed drones in India.
According to diplomats primarily based in Washington and New Delhi, the US is anticipated to clear General Electric’s software to collectively produce F-414 jet engines in India for the Tejas Mark II earlier than PM Modi’s go to to the US. US defence main GE can also be speaking to its ancillary companions within the EU to shift manufacturing for F-414 engines to India. The US can also be prepared to produce armed drones to India to counter the Chinese armed drone menace all alongside the LAC.
Apart from launching an innovation bridge that can join Indian and US defence startups, India can also be searching for US intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) know-how for elevated maritime area consciousness within the Indo-Pacific. Besides, the 2 international locations are actively collaborating in establishing semiconductor-resilient provide chains in India with an eye fixed on the Chinese army risk to Taiwan and the semiconductor business primarily based there.
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