Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit has been completed. He has returned to New Delhi after this international visit of about 60 hours. On one hand, on this visit, he established India as an important player in the QUAD group, which includes countries like America, Australia and Japan. At the same time, through bilateral meetings, he showed the world a glimpse of India’s foreign policy on the international platform. Due to many such reasons, it is being said that this US visit at the beginning of PM Modi’s third term will prove to be a new milestone in terms of foreign policy.
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India, which is constantly progressing in terms of technology, is likely to get many benefits from this US visit. In terms of new technology, mutual cooperation between India and America on semiconductors is continuing. At the same time, India is also now in a position to get its first security fab. Apart from this, defense partnerships like efforts to buy and jointly manufacture drones, efforts to create a separate energy chain outside China with the help of a separate agreement, and many other things are included.
Meeting with companies
It is being said that from America’s national security to the tech world, there are indications that India is a reliable partner. A glimpse of this was also seen in PM Modi’s meeting with the world’s big companies. During the meeting, regulatory and legal changes were suggested by the companies, but PM Modi’s personal contact was also appreciated.
QUAD summit
On the very first day of his US visit, PM Modi attended the Quad summit hosted by President Joe Biden. It was attended by Japanese Prime Minister Fumiya Kishida and Australian PM Anthony Albanese. Apart from the summit, PM Modi also held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Australia and Japan.
Key announcements from the summit include the ‘Quad Cancer Moonshot’, an unprecedented partnership to tackle the challenges posed by cancer, especially cervical cancer, in the Indo-Pacific region. India has pledged a grant of US$7.5 million for screening and diagnosis of the disease in the Indo-Pacific region to strengthen the fight against cervical cancer.
The Quad nations announced a new Regional Maritime Initiative (MAITRI) for training in the Indo-Pacific to enable their partners in the region to make the most of the tools provided through the Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) and other initiatives of Quad partners to monitor and secure their waters, enforce their laws, and deter illegal behaviour.
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PM Modi’s meetings on the sidelines of the UN summit indicate what Delhi’s priorities are. At a time when India is seeing developments in neighboring countries harming India. PM Modi met his Nepali counterpart KP Oli. In the eastern region, he met Vietnam’s To Lam, which is very important in terms of the Indo-Pacific region.
In the west, he met the leader of Kuwait. The special thing is that India has energy interests and a large population here. The special thing is that this is the only Gulf country which has recently gone through a period of political instability. Armenia is India’s ally in terms of defense exports. PM Modi also met their leader. It is being said that a pattern can be seen in the way PM Modi meets leaders.
India’s image as a responsible country
Keeping in mind India’s strategic needs, India has created an image of itself as a responsible international power. For the third time in three months, he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The repeated meetings indicate that the discussion has now moved beyond appeals for peace to how to achieve it. According to Indian officials, there is hardly anyone among the democratic forces who can be as comfortable as Modi with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Zelensky and Biden. PM Modi held talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
