WASHINGTON: Describing security cooperation with India as "a central element of the broad U.S.-India strategic partnership", the U.S. says it looks forward to working closely with the next Indian government to build on it.
India's "rise as a competent and confidant and capable power that advances regional stability, security and prosperity is something that the United States welcomes and supports," Nisha Desai Biswal, assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia told a Congressional panel.
"The U.S.-India relationship has continued to mature, deepen and grow over successive administrations in both countries," she said in her testimony Wednesday before House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific on "Assessing U.S. Foreign Assistance Priorities in South Asia."
Commenting on "the incredible display of democracy going on in India," Biswal said, the U.S. continued to facilitate growth in India-U.S. trade relationship and ensure new opportunities for businesses in each other's markets.
"Our collaboration on energy, science and technology, environment, space, education and counterterrorism continues to deepen," she said.
The U.S. was "doubling down, so to speak, in Asia," Biswal said as the Obama administration has "placed a strategic bet on regional economic connectivity through its New Silk Road and Indo-Pacific economic corridor initiatives."
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