'We deepened our partnership with India through Quad': U.S. Secretary of State Blinken
The Hindu
U.S. strengthens partnership with India, elevates cooperation with Quad nations in 2023.
The U.S. has deepened its partnership with India in 2023 and elevated cooperation with it through the Quad along with Japan and Australia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.
Mr. Blinken's remarks came at his end-of-year press availability at the State Department in Washington on Wednesday.
“We’ve deepened our partnership with India. We’ve elevated cooperation through the Quad with India, Japan and Australia,” he said.
The US, Japan, India and Australia had in 2017 given shape to the long-pending proposal of setting up the Quad or the Quadrilateral coalition to counter China’s aggressive behaviour in the resource-rich Indo-Pacific region.
U.S. President Joe Biden hosted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a State Visit in Washington in June this year and the U.S. leader had then travelled to Delhi for the G20 Leaders' Summit hosted by PM Modi under India's presidency of the grouping.
Mr. Blinken said that Washington's partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region have never been stronger and the U.S. will continue to engage with China from a position of strength.
He noted that in 2023, Biden held his historic summit at Camp David with Japan and South Korea, cementing a new era of trilateral cooperation.
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