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Important Issues in
US India Relations
New Task Force Report - Charting New Frontiers:
Enhancing India-U.S. Cooperation in the
Global Innovation Economy
At events in Washington, DC on June 24-25, 2009 the Pacific
Council released a new Task Force report setting out policy recommendations
for strengthening U.S.-India economic relations, with a sharp focus on
the innovation economy sectors that are so important to the prospects
of each country. The report charts a course for capitalizing on looming
opportunities for mutual gains while seeking to mitigate possible tensions
as India assumes a larger role in the global economy.
The report is the product of a focused and sustained exchange among American
and Indian business leaders and policy experts. This Task Force, organized
jointly with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry,
a leading business association in India, was co-chaired by Richard F.
Celeste, former U.S. ambassador to India and governor of Ohio, and Dr.
Amit Mitra, FICCI’s secretary general.
- Executive
Summary
- Full
Text (67-page PDF)
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Remarks on US-India
Relations
Addressing the U.S.-India Business Council's 34th Anniversary
"Synergies Summit" in Washington DC on June 17, 2009, Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the Obama administration is
"clearly committed to furthering and deepening our relationship with
India in every way possible," outlined "four platforms of cooperation
in global security, human development, economic activity, science and
technology" and affirmed that she planned to make the U.S.-India
relationship "a personal priority."
[Read
text of speech]
Delivering on the Promise: Advancing US Relations with
India
An Asia Society Task Force Report, January 2009, says India
matters to virtually every major foreign policy issue that will confront
the United States in the years ahead. A broad-based, close relationship
with India will thus be necessary to solve complex global challenges,
achieve security in the critical South Asian region, reestablish stability
in the global economy, and overcome the threat of violent Islamic radicalism
which has taken root across the region and in India. The members of this
task force believe that the US relationship with India will be among our
most important in the future, and will at long last reach its potential
for global impact—provided that strong leadership on both sides steers
the way.
- Read
Press Release
- Read
Full Report (PDF)
"India has in many ways captured the imagination
of America"
In an interview on May 19, 2008, US Ambassador to India David Mulford
said that one of the areas of growing cooperation between the US and India
is in education, where he is looking forward to an expanded partnership
in student and faculty exchanges, capital investments and the Fulbright
programme. The Indian government has agreed, in principle, to contribute
half of the funding for the bilateral programme, and also raise money
from the private sector to expand it from 150 to 600 or 700 scholars.
[Read
a transcript of interactive session with the Ambassador]
US-India Strategic Partnership: Where is it Headed?
Presentation delivered by Ram Narayanan of US-India Friendship at a roundtable
on "US-India Relations" organized by SAPRA India Foundation
on January 16, 2007 at the India International Center, New Delhi.
[Read text of presentation]
Saja Forum's Review of Ram Narayanan's Work
SAJA (South Asia Journalists Association) Forum has published on November
17, 2006 a web description of the work I do in promoting US-India relations.
[Read
text of blog]
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Latest updates: July 1, 2009
Indian American Task Force (IATF) - Mumbai Terror Attacks
Most recent Viewpoints on US-India Relations
- Reflections
on US-India Relations by Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake
at the American Enterprise Institute June 30, 2009
- Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake talks to PTI on US-India
Strategic Partnership, June 29, 2009
- The
US-India Business Council Comes of Age, Sunil Chacko, Medical Doctor,
Public Health and Finance Specialist. University Professor in The Huffington
Post, June 25, 2009.
- Ambassador T P Sreenivasan on
"We can say ‘No’ India can pursue independent foreign
policy"., June 20, 2009
- Why
the U.S. Should Listen to India's Voters, RealClearPolitics.com,
May 21, 2009
- Becoming
Asia's 'swing state' - South Asia giant set for greater cooperation
with the U.S., The Washington Times, May 20, 2009
- “Building
a Strategic Partnership: U.S. – India Relations in the Wake of
Mumbai” - statement by Amb. Karl F. Inderfurth to House Committee
on Foreign Affairs Middle East and South Asia Subcommittee (PDF), February
26, 2009
- "Building
a Strategic Partnership: U.S.-India Relations in the Wake of Mumbai"
by Lisa Curtis - testimony before Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee
on the Middle East and South Asia, February 26, 2009
- U.S.–India
Homeland Security Cooperation: Moving Forward
by Lisa Curtis and Jena Baker McNeill , Heritage Foundation, February
9, 2009
- Mumbai
Terror attacks - Dossier of evidence - Dossier of material stemming
from the ongoing investigation into the Mumbai terrorist attacks prepared
by the Government of India (partly with FBI assistance) that was handed
over by India to Pakistan on January 5, 2009
- The
Lessons of Mumbai, by Rand Corporation, January, 2009 (pdf)
- ICAT
[International Campaign Against Terrorism] Demands Extradition Of Jihadis
And ISI Operatives & Freezing Of Saudi Assets, December 12,
2008
- Stephen Philip Cohen of the
Brookings Institution on 'Trends in US-India Relations'; Delivered
at the PAN IIT Conference held in Chennai, India, December 20, 2008
- India
will be 'top priority' in my presidency: Obama, October 23, 2008
- The Indian Express Editorial on Bush's
historic contribution to the transformation of Indo-US relations,
September 29, 2008
- Karl Inderfurth: “The
U.S. and India expanding engagement agenda” in The Hindu, September
10, 2008
- The Heritage Foundation on "India
marches into modern era" , September 9, 2008
- John
McCain: America has a vested interest in India's success, The Indian
Express, August 8, 2008
- Barack Obama on US-India
Relations, interview in The Outlook Magazine, July 21, 2008
- Teresita C. Shaffer: “U.S.-INDIA
RELATIONS NEEDED: A NEW KIND OF PARTNERSHIP”, Testimony before
the U.S. House of Representatives, June 25, 2008 (PDF)
- U.S.
is One of the ‘Central Pillars’ of Indian Foreign Policy,
Bruce O. Riedel, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle
East Policy, Brookings Institution, April 29, 2008
- Engaging
India: The New Indo-USA Partnership Poses Challenges for the Future
Us Administrations, by Dr. Adityanjee is the President of Council
for Strategic Affairs, New Delhi
Most Recent Congressional Statements Relating to India
Senate India Caucus
Most recent News on US-India Relations
Objective of US-India Friendship
Dear Friends of India,
We are at the crossroads of international partnerships. The Cold War
is a fading memory, and while military power remains important, political,
economic and cultural structures around the world are increasingly the
true foundations of cooperation.
In this regard, India and the United States could not be more alike.
Although in economic terms India is only now experiencing faster economic
growth, many of us are optimistic that this path will lead to the kind
of vibrant and responsive economic structures that now support American
markets. Alongside this economic parallel is the natural bond that flows
from being the planet's largest democracies.
What role can Indian Americans and friends of India play in ensuring
that these opportunities grow to their full potential?
We must be heard in the corridors of power, and for that to happen, we
must speak to those who would act on our thoughts. Every representative
in Congress must be made aware that funding support as well as support
at the voting booths is at least partly contingent on the voting records
of congressmen and women in matters relating to US-India relations.
On these pages, US-India Friendship will help make your voices for strong
Us-India relations heard with purpose and conviction. We hope that you
will use the links and the information we provide to participate with
vigor. Together, we will fulfill both the promise and the obligation of
our free societies.
Ram Narayanan
Editor-Coordinator
US-India Friendship.net
The Indian-American community is the fastest growing community as a whole
in the United States, according to an IACPA (India Abroad Center for Political
Awareness) press release analyzing the US Census 2000 Results for the
Indian-American population.
Among all the listed ethnic groups as per a sample study for 2000 carried
out by the US Census Bureau and published in "Asian-Nation:
The Landscape of Asian America," Indian Americans (called "Asian
Indians") outperform all other racial/ethnic groups in most measures
of socioeconomic achievement; have the highest educational rates (an astounding
64.4% have college degrees while 12.5% have an advanced degree including
a law, medical, or doctorate degree); have the highest median family income;
the highest rate of being Married with Spouse Present; and the highest
rate of working in a High-Skill Occupation, generally characterized as
executive, professional, technical, or upper management.
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