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National safety adviser Jake Sullivan will journey to India for a go to specializing in cooperation on strategic know-how, together with in protection, area and synthetic intelligence.

The Biden administration mentioned Sullivan’s go to on Sunday and Monday will embody a speech on the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi wherein he’ll stress that the outgoing administration sees the U.S. partnership with India as central to its regional and international priorities, and one with assist from each main political events. It’s anticipated to be the final high-profile go to to India by the Biden administration.

Sullivan is predicted to fulfill with Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

India and the U.S. launched a know-how initiative in 2022 outlining collaboration on semiconductor manufacturing and creating synthetic intelligence. The accord was essential in sealing a deal to permit U.S.-based General Electric to accomplice with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics to provide jet engines in India.

India and the U.S. have grown nearer not too long ago, partially in response to China’s rising assertiveness within the Indo-Pacific area. Biden threw Prime Minister Narendra Modi a state dinner final 12 months.

But ties have additionally been strained by U.S. prosecutors’ accusation in 2023 that an official in Modi’s authorities was concerned in a foiled assassination plot towards an activist of India’s Sikh minority in New York, and the killing of one other Sikh activist in Canada.