Live Updates: Bilateral With Biden, Quad Summit On PM US Itinerary Today
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PM Modi in US Live: Later in the day, Joe Biden will host the first-ever in-person Quad Leaders' Summit with PM Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold in-person talks with the US President, a first after Joe Biden took charge in January this year. The two leaders will review "robust and multifaceted" India-US bilateral ties and will hold a discussion to bolster bilateral trade and investment ties, Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla had earlier informed. Later in the day, Biden will host the first-ever in-person Quad Leaders' Summit with PM Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Covid vaccines drive, regional infrastructure, climate change and securing supply chains for the semiconductors used in computer technology will be discussed in the meeting in the White House.
While China is not officially on the agenda, the Quad will stress backing for a "free and open Indo-Pacific," news agency AFP quoted a senior US official as saying.
Earlier in the day, an editorial in Chinese state media has accused the US of working to contain China's rise and warned the Quad nations that it "would not hesitate to punish them" if they "followed the US too far in confronting China".
