India, US need to think ‘bigger’ while attempting to resolve pending trade issues: S Jaishankar

23 Jul 2020 Evaluate

Delving into various key facets of the fast expanding ties between India and the US, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said two countries need to think ‘bigger’ while attempting to resolve the pending trade issues. He also pitched for deeper collaboration between the two countries in the areas of innovation and technology. On the trade issue, he said ‘I understand the centrality of the economic relations....These are bread and butter issues. These are really what make countries deal with each other. But I think, between India and the US, while we work through trade issues, we need to think bigger’. India and the US have been engaged in talks to iron out differences over a set of tariff related issues.

He added ‘My sense is that it is in our mutual interest. We need to resolve these pending problems and move onto something bigger. I think there is a lot of interest here in doing that’. Mentioning about the strength of the Indo-US ties, he said there will be issues on which ‘our convergence will be more, somewhere it will be less. I think the quest in the last 20 years, and I see that continuing into the future, is really to find more common ground’. Talking about changing geopolitics, he said the US really will require to learn to work with a more multipolar world with a more plurilateral arrangement and will require to go beyond the alliances with which it has really grown up over the last two generations.

The External Affairs Minister said there is a much ‘bigger connect’ between the two countries beyond trade, which he identified as ‘knowledge innovation connect’. He said ‘I think beyond the exchange of goods and creating a better investment climate for each other, this ability to work together in the world of innovation and technology, I think, that is really what will set our relationship apart’. On the overall ties, the external affairs minister said both countries have the ability today to shape the world by working together.

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