India and the US agree that borders should be sacrosanct, says Eric Garcetti

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Outgoing US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti said North American and West Asian oil can make up for any shortfall in Russian crude supplies to India following the latest US sanctions on that country, pointing out that India and the US “agree that borders should be sacrosanct". On fears of a looming tariff war, he said with President-elect Donald Trump “it's an invitation to negotiate." Edited excerpts from an interview: I would say its trust and ambition, because it's clear that we have friendship.

It's clear that we now have a record of cooperation. I think there's no place trust can't take us. And we have to be more ambitious, because the challenge of the moment—from climate change to diversifying supply chain, health pandemics to artificial intelligence demands that we be more ambitious, and I'm confident that we will be.

US and India are highly ambitious populations. We always have been. We're entrepreneurial, we're researchers, we're students, we work hard, we're diverse, we're democratic.

Sometimes we get caught up in the narcissism of small differences as psychologist Freud once said. But if you look at us, we overlap mostly in about 80% of things, and that's rare for two countries, let alone two big countries our size. So, I think in broad terms, that's the most important thing, and especially in the areas of technology and trade, and defense and people-to-people ties.

Those are the four pillars—peace, prosperity, planet, and people—and these can define the future not just for India and the US, but I think for the world. I think the concern would be that we clickbait comments on social media. You know, we're too big populations not to find somebody who says, oh,