President Joe Biden highlighted the robust business ties between the US and India, mentioning that the commercial courting between the 2 international locations has nearly doubled during the last decade.
Issuing a joint press remark with High Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (native time), President Biden pointed to the thriving financial courting between Washington and New Delhi and mentioned, “Our financial courting is booming. Industry between our international locations has nearly doubled during the last decade to greater than USD 191 billion supporting tens of 1000’s of excellent jobs in each India and the US.” In step with Biden, the acquisition of greater than 200 American-made Boeing plane by way of Air India previous this yr will give a boost to a million American employment unfold throughout 44 states.
He added that with this state consult with of PM Modi to the USA, Indian companies are saying greater than USD 2 billion in new investments in production sun in Colorado, metal in Ohio, and optic fibre in South Carolina.
“We’re doubling on our cooperation to safe our semiconductor provide chains, and rising our primary defence partnership with extra joint workout routines, extra cooperation between our defence industries, and extra session and coordination throughout all domain names,” Biden added.
He emphasised that this consult with of PM Modi exemplifies how the US and India collaborate to advance international building, Biden mentioned in his joint press remark these days.
President Biden additionally discussed quite a lot of spaces of cooperation, equivalent to scientific analysis, human spaceflight, blank power transition, fighting local weather alternate, and joint efforts in important and rising applied sciences like quantum computing and synthetic intelligence whilst making sure their accountable use.
“From designing new techniques to diagnose most cancers and diabetes to participating at the world tempo centre and deal with sicknesses like most cancers and diabetes to participating on human spaceflight, together with sending an Indian astronaut to the Global Area Station in 2024 to accelerating the worldwide blank power transition and tackling the local weather disaster we are facing, to harnessing our shared experience on important and rising applied sciences like quantum computing and synthetic intelligence to making sure they don’t seem to be used as equipment of incorrect information and oppression,” the USA President mentioned.
PM Modi on Wednesday arrived in Washington DC after overseeing a unique Yoga consultation at the lawns of the United International locations headquarters in New York Town.
United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday (native time) hosted High Minister Narendra Modi for an intimate dinner on the White Area earlier than the high-profile state dinner.
Right through the dinner, the trio loved a musical tribute to the areas of India, carried out by way of adolescence dancers from Studio Dhoom, a DMV-based Indian dance studio that is helping attach a brand new era to the colourful tradition of Indian dance, in keeping with the White Area.
The leaders additionally exchanged items on the White Area. PM Modi offered a unique sandalwood field to US President Biden that has been hand made by way of a grasp craftsman from Jaipur, Rajasthan. He additionally talented a lab-grown 7.5-carat inexperienced diamond and ‘papier mache’ to US First Woman Jill Biden.
Joe Biden and Jill Biden offered PM Modi with a home made, vintage American e-book galley from the early twentieth Century. Biden additionally talented a antique American digital camera, accompanied by way of an archival facsimile print of George Eastman’s Patent of the primary Kodak digital camera, and a hardcover e-book of American flora and fauna images. Jill Biden talented a signed, first-edition reproduction of “Gathered Poems of Robert Frost” to PM Modi.
High Minister Narendra Modi, who’s on his maiden State consult with to the USA, is handiest the 3rd Indian chief after former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and previous High Minister Manmohan Singh to have this privilege.
PM Modi first visited the USA in 2014, on a operating consult with. This consult with used to be important as he additionally delivered his maiden speech on the 69th consultation of the United International locations Normal Meeting.
He visited the USA once more in 2016, for the Nuclear Safety Summit. Right through this consult with, he additionally met then-US President Barack Obama on the White Area and held bilateral talks.
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