India-U.S. relationship has moved in a positive direction says USISPF chief

Mukesh Aghi, CEO of USISPF, highlights positive direction of India-US relationship, ranging from trade to defence, and deep understanding of each other's differences.

The relationship between India and the U.S. has moved in a positive direction ranging from trade to defence and the two nations have shown a sense of deep understating of each other's differences, the head of a top India-centric business and strategic group has said.

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Mukesh Aghi, CEO of the U.S.-India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF) said that there is more alignment between the two countries when it is looked at from the geopolitical QUAD perspective.

“I think in every aspect we (India-U.S. relationship) have moved in a positive direction. You look at trade, which has gone up. You look at the military exercises, we're doing more and more of those. We also have signed a lot of agreements with the U.S., especially in defence and space. We have agreed to repair the ships in our ports," Mr. Aghi said on December 13.

"When you look at it from the geopolitical QUAD perspective, there's more alignment between the two countries,” Mr. Aghi told PTI in an interview.

“What I see is that 2023 is a year of highlights between two countries. More important is that both countries have settled down; there is a sense of maturity, there is a sense of deep understanding of each other's differences, and there's a way to manage the differences and also respect each other's position from that perspective.

"I believe that the relationship there seems to keep on going up and up as time goes by,” Mr. Aghi said, giving his sense of the India-U.S. relationship in the year 2023.