TIL Desk/World/Washington/ The US wants to deepen military relationship and expand bilateral trade with New Delhi which will ease the sale of the F-16 and F-18 jets to India and will also help create a defence technology partnership, a top American diplomat has said.
“This is a dynamic relationship with really” hasn’t “begun to see the potential yet,” Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs and Acting Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Alice G Wells, told.
Wells accompanied Tillerson on his just concluded trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.”This was an extremely friendly, very wide-ranging dialogue on how we can partner together on the strategic relationship that we think is going to define the rest of the 21st century,” Wells said.
While there was a bilateral component to the visit, but they talked about how the two countries with shared values a respect for democracy, transparency, freedom of navigation, for economic development can inculcate these values in the broader Indo-Pacific region, working with important partners like Japan and Australia.
