US is India’s ‘optimal choice’ as a partner, says Jaishankar

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Click here! As an example, he offered Quad where US had partnered with India, which wasn’t a treaty ally like the other two countries in the grouping (Australia and Japan). “You should credit US policymakers with that imagination and with that forward planning that they have already started getting into this much more fluid, dispersed centres of power. Very often, much more regional, with sometimes different issues and different theatres producing their different combinations.

It is no longer such a clean-cut black-and-white or three-axis solutions. It is far more messy in a way. It is much more anarchic in a way.

And all of us are trying to adjust to that and find a way of working with each other," Jaishankar added. The Indian external affairs minister said there was enormous possibility that both countries can play in enhancing each other’s interests. “If the US looks at the world and says what is the competition and where are the partners, real and potential, and we do the same, you will find that convergences today far, far outweighs the divergences.

And so for me, I am no longer prepared to think of it as where are the limits. Where all are opportunities, how much can we step on the gas, how much can we take it forward," the Hindustan Times reported Jaishankar as saying. Jaishankar pointed to the changes in just the last five years across security, political, technological, and human linkages domains.

“We have a lot going for us." When asked what constitutes the three top priorities for the bilateral relationship, Jaishankar said, “The India-US relationship has to focus strongly on technology. In many ways, the balance of power in the world has always been a function of the balance of tech. But it is even more