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Latest updates: January 26, 2012 Viewpoints2012 01.23.2012 - Address by Ambassador Nirupama Rao at the Seminar "India as a Global Power: Contending Views from India" jointly organized by the Center for a New American Security, in partnership with The George Washington University's Rising Powers Initiative 01.22.2012 - "Beyond minor irritants" by Karl F Inderfurth, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia during the Clinton presidency, who now holds the Wadwani Chair for US-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. 2011 12.16.2011 - "U.S.-India Partnership in an Asia-Pacific Century", William J. Burns, Deputy Secretary of State, speaking at the Univerity of Pune, India 11.04.2011 - Asia, the Americas, and U.S. Strategy for a New Century, Remarks of William J. Burns, Deputy Secretary of State at the World Affairs Councils of America National Conference 09.27.2011 - Is There a Future for the U.S.-India Partnership? Remarks of William J. Burns Deputy Secretary Brookings Institution Washington, DC 07.20.2011 - Remarks on India and the United States: A Vision for the 21st Century, Anna Centenary Library, Chennai, India 07.19.2011 - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Visit to India
06.09.2011 - Bilateral Relations Since the Obama-Singh Summit, remarks by Robert O. Black, Jr. 05.02.2011 - "Time for a US-India investment treaty" by Evan A Feigenbaum, Head, Asia Practice Group, at Eurasia Group, and adjunct senior fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations Washington, DC 05.01.2011 - "Indo-US engagement at the crossroads," by Premvir Das, former Director General, Defence Planning Staff, has been member of the National Security Advisory Board, Business Standard 04.22.2011 - India and the United States: A Strategic Economic Partnership for the 21st Century, Remarks of Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton India Economic Forum 02.25.2011 - "The Regional and Global Impact of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership" by Geoffrey Pyatt Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Emerging India Summit, Emory University Atlanta, GA 02-10-2011 - "The Impact of the President's Trip to India and East Asia," Remarks by Geoffrey Pyatt, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S.-India-Singapore Policy Forum, The Regent Singapore 01-25-2011 - India: The Rise of an Economic Power, Remarks of Robert O. Blake, Jr. Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at Syracuse University, NY 01-19-2011- "The Obama Administration's Priorities in South and Central Asia," Remarks by Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, Houston, TX 12.15.2010 - Professor Surjit Mansingh on "Obama in India," New Nations Bulletin 12.06.2010 - Ambassador Timothy Roemer on "Yes, together we can" in Hindustan Times 11.08.2010 - Joint Statement by President Obama and Prime Minister Singh of India 11.08.2010 - President Barack Obama's Remarks to India's Parliament - View Video 10.28.2010 - Ashley Tellis on "Obama in India -- Building a Global Partnership: Challenges, Risks, Opportunities," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Policy Outlook paper 10.2010 - Richard Armitage, Nicholas Burns and Richard Fontaine on "Natural Allies: A Blueprint for the Future of US-India Relations," Center for a New American Century 10.22.2010 - Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake's Nine TV interviews on 10/22/2010 on the eve of President Obama's visit to India:
09.30.2010 - India–U.S. Relations on the Eve of President Obama's Visit 08.17.2010 - Ambassador Timothy J Roemer on "We're in this together," Hindustan Times 07.22.2010 - Ambassador G Parthasarathy on "New US thinking on India Coming Obama visit offers an opportunity," The Tribune 07.09.2010 - Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affars on "U.S.-India Partnership: Kanpur Indo-American Program and Beyond," IIT-Kanpur Golden Jubilee Alumni Convention, Washington, DC 07.01.2010 - Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy's address at the Asia Society's Washington Center on July 1, 2010, called for more U.S. involvement in the modernization of the armed forces of India. 06.16.2010 - Shyam Saran, Former Indian Foreign Secretary, "India needs to have sharper focus", Business Standard 06.16.2010 - Thomas Mathew of IDSA, New Delhi, "US fetters strategic ties," Express Buzz 06.16.2010 - Air Marshal Brijesh D. Jayal "TO WORK ON A FRIENDSHIP - Like the US, India must be clear about its own security strategy" 06.14.2010 - Prashanth Parameswaran of Project 2049 Institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank , "The Future of U.S.-India Relations" 06.14.2010 - Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake's Exclusive Interview with Aziz Haniffa on the 'Strategic Dialogue' 06.09.2010 - Ambassador T P Sreenivasan: "Obama has gone further than Bush on India," Rediff News 06.09.2010 - K.P. Nayar: "PERSONAL CHEMISTRY - S.M. Krishnas visit to Washington will bolster Indo-US ties" 06.09.2010 - A Adityanjee , President, Council for Strategic Affairs, New Delhi: "Its the Civilizational and Strategic Dialogue" 06.08.2010 - Harsh V. Pant on "US-India strategic dialogue: Move beyond symbolism," Rediff News 06.08.2010 - Conversations With America:US-India relations following
the Strategic Dialogue of June 3, 2010: Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs; Philip J. Crowley,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs; Ambassador Teresita
Schaffer, Director of the South Asia Program at CSIS, Washington,
DC 06.08.2010 - M K Bhadrakumar: "The
angst of wayward US partnerships," Asia Times Online 06.07.2010 - Judith Apter Klinghoffer: "After
Jewish Americans, Come Indian Americans," George Mason University's
History News Network 06.04.2010 - India and the United States: A Strategic Partnership, Brookings Event, June 4, 2010 06.04.2010 - B Raman: "Obama: A Relook at India," Chennai Centre for China Studies 06.04.2010 - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "Partnership Of Democracies" 06.04.2010 - Remarks by the Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao at the Inaugural Session of the Seminar on India and the United States: A Strategic Partnership 06.03.2010 - Joint Statement issued after the conclusion of U.S. - India Strategic Dialogue at Washington, DC 06.03.2010 - Remarks by the President at U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue Reception 06.03.2010 - Video on Reception at State Department: Speeches of Clinton , Krishna and Obama 06.01.2010 - Under Secretary for Political Affairs William Burns at Council on Foreign Relations on "India's Rise and the Promise of U.S.-Indian Partnership" 05.28.2010 - An Indispensable U.S. Partnership With the Worlds Largest Democracy, posted on the U.S. Department of State DipNote Official Blog by William J. Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs. 05.2010 - President Obama's New National Security Strategy 4.13.2010 - Taking the U.S.-India Partnership to the Next Level, address by Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce at The Confederation of Indian Industry, New Delhi 3.19.2010 - Bridging Trade Boundaries: Strengthening Strategic Alliances, remarks at the 20th Asian Corporate Conference in New Delhi on March 19, 2010 by Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs 02.18.2010 - US relations with India: Remarks at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs by Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at the State Department 02.14.2010 - "As Obama bets on Asia, regional players hedge," By Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post 01.2010 - "Rising India's Great Power Burden", lecture in the Power and Identity Series, November 16, 2009 by C. Raja Mohan, Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations, Library of Congress as published in The Sigur Center for Asian Studies of George Washington University, Issue No. 7, January, 2010 01.19.2010 - "Forward, together" by Robert M Gates, US Defense Secretary 2009 12.19.209 - "Indian Americans walking the corridors of power" (Desis in DC) by Chidanand Rajghatta in Times of India 12.2009 - Peking Ducked: Indo-US ties have a special salience, regardless of China, by Lisa Curtis, senior research fellow for South Asia in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, OUTLOOK INDIA.COM 11.2009 - Position paper on US National Security and US-India Strategic Relations, by US-India Political Action Committee 11.24.09 - Most Recent U.S.-India Official Documents
11.24.09 - Joint Statement between Prime Minister Dr. Singh and President Obama: INDIA AND THE UNITED STATES: PARTNERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD 11.16.09 - Divergent
interests test U.S.-India ties by Lee Hamilton, Director of the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington and director of
the Center on Congress at Indiana University 11.06.09 - Newsweek, Manmohan Singh's New Strategy for India: Manmohan Singh's new stand on Copenhagen is just part of a plan to reposition India as a global power 11.03.09 - India's Strategic Defense Transformation: Expanding Global Relationships by Lt. Col. Brian K. Hedrick, Military Advisor to the Asst. Secretary of State for South and Central Asia at the State Department. 11.03.09 - Ashok Malik on The Best American President India's Ever Had, Forbes.com 10.30.09 - ROBERT HADDICK on U.S.-India military cooperation: some rare good news in Asia, FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE 10.2009 - United States and India 3.0, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Policy Brief 81 by Ashley J. Tellis, Senior Associate. 10.23.09 - N-power to brainpower, N-power to brainpower by Amit Mitra, Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Hindustan Times 10.17.09 - The
Obama Administration : Debates and Trends in US Foreign Policy- An Indian
View, by R. Swaminathan. (The Center for Security Analysis and the
US Consulate General in Chennai jointly organized a public lecture in
Chennai on The Obama Administration: New Faces, Debates and Trends
in US Foreign Policy on 15 October 2009. This brief note was prepared
by the author, who is the President & DG, International Institute
of Security and Safety Management, and former Special Secretary, DG (Security),
Government of India, to form the basis of his talk on this occasion.) 09.25.09 - US and India: One of the most important and best relationships
in the world, US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer in conversation at
The Hindu newspaper, Chennai talks about US-India relations 09.23.09 - Former Indian Foreign Secretary Krishnan Srinivasan on "Forever Uneasy - The perversity of the relationship between India and the US" in The Telegraph 09.14.09 - Address by Ambassador Meera Shankar at the Atlantic Council, Washington, DC on "U.S.-India Relations: The Next Phase" 09.11.09 - India taps US for a security boost, by Siddharth Srivastav, Asia Times Online 08.28.09 - 'Our goal-post right now is Dr Singh's State visit to Washington', Assistant Secretary of South Asian Affairs, Robert Blake's interview with INDIA ABROAD 08.25.09 - 'Pakistan, an albatross around India's neck', Ambassador Teresita C Schaffer interviewed by Aziz Haniffa about her book India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership 08.21.09 - The US may have no nuclear trade with India by Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, August 21, 2009 08.05.09 - Clinton's India visit a low-key success: David J Karl, director of studies at the Pacific Council on International Policy and project director of the Joint Task Force on Enhancing India-US Cooperation in the Global Innovation Economy 07.24.09 - India, US eyeing an ambitious agenda: Karl Inderfurth 07.24.09 - Gordon G. Chang on "Clinton Chooses India: Alone in the administration, the Secretary of State makes the right call", Forbes.com 07.23.09 - Teresita C. Schaffer on "Hillary
Clinton's Visit to India," CSIS (Center for Strategic and International
Studies) 07.20.09 - Official Documents: Hillary Clinton and S M Krishna -- Interaction with the media 07.20.09 - Official Documents: U.S. - India Joint Statement, U.S. Bureau of Public Affairs 07.20.09 - U.S. Official Documents: U.S. - India Agreements and Achievement, Bureau of Public Affairs 07.16.09 - Clinton's Challenge in India, by Evan A. Feigenbaum, Senior Fellow for East, Central, and South Asia in Council on Foreign Relations 07.2009 - Developing India's Foreign Policy "Software," Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. (PDF) 06.2009 - New Task Force Report - Charting New Frontiers: Enhancing India-U.S. Cooperation in the Global Innovation Economy, Washington, DC, June 24-25, 2009 (67-page PDF) 06.23.09 - The US-India Business Council Comes of Age, Sunil Chacko, Medical Doctor, Public Health and Finance Specialist. University Professor in The Huffington Post, June 25, 2009. 06.20.09 - Ambassador T P Sreenivasan on
"We can say No 06.17.09 - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Remarks on US-India Relations 05.21.09 - Why the U.S. Should Listen to India's Voters, RealClearPolitics.com 05.20.09 - Becoming Asia's 'swing state' - South Asia giant set for greater cooperation with the U.S., The Washington Times 02.26.09 - Building a Strategic Partnership: U.S. India Relations in the Wake of Mumbai - statement by Amb. Karl F. Inderfurth to House Committee on Foreign Affairs Middle East and South Asia Subcommittee (PDF) 02.26.09 - "Building a Strategic Partnership: U.S.-India Relations in the Wake of Mumbai" by Lisa Curtis - testimony before Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia 02.09.09 - U.S.India
Homeland Security Cooperation: Moving Forward 01.05.09 - Mumbai Terror attacks - Dossier of evidence - Dossier of material stemming from the ongoing investigation into the Mumbai terrorist attacks prepared by the Government of India (partly with FBI assistance) that was handed over by India to Pakistan on January 5, 2009 01.01.09 - Delivering on the Promise: Advancing US Relations with India, an Asia Society Task Force Report 01.09 - The Lessons of Mumbai, Rand Corporation (PDF) 2008 12.20.08 - Stephen Philip Cohen of the Brookings Institution on 'Trends in US-India Relations'; Delivered at the PAN IIT Conference held in Chennai, India 10.25.08 -- Indian Express: There are real differences between me (McCain) and Obama on issues that matter greatly to India 10.23.08 -- The Hindu: India will be 'top priority' in my presidency: Obama 09.29.08 - The Indian Express Editorial on Bush's historic contribution to the transformation of Indo-US relations 09.10.08 - Karl Inderfurth: The U.S. and India expanding engagement agenda in The Hindu 09.09.08 - The Heritage Foundation on"India marches into modern era" 08.08.08 - John McCain: America has a vested interest in India's success, The Indian Express 07.21.08 - Barack Obama on US-India Relations, interview in The Outlook Magazine 07.03.08 - Strobe Talbott on THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Why All Augurs well for India, Observer Research Forum 06.25.08 - Teresita C. Shaffer: U.S.-INDIA RELATIONS NEEDED: A NEW KIND OF PARTNERSHIP, Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives 06.13.08 - Indra K Nooyi, PepsioCo's first lady Chairman and CEO: "India has been transformed. The country I go back to is not the same country I left." Speech given before United States India Business Council. 05.19.08 - "India has in many ways captured the imagination of America", Transcript of interactive session with US Ambassador David Campbell Mulford, The Hindu 04.29.08 - U.S. is One of the Central Pillars of Indian Foreign Policy, Bruce O. Riedel, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution 04.13.08 - Engaging India: The New Indo-USA Partnership Poses Challenges for the Future Us Administrations, by Dr. Adityanjee is the President of Council for Strategic Affairs, New Delhi 03.24.08 - Perspectives on India-US Relations, Remarks by External Affairs Minister of India Mr. Pranab Mukherjee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 02.10.08 - Devil's Advocate: 'N-deal India's passport to the world', Ambassador David Muford talks to CNN-IBN about the nuclear deal 01.07.08 - Quiet continuity for U.S.-India relations by Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council of Foreign Relations Jan.08 - Is India an Ally? by Sadanand Dhume, a former India correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review and a fellow at the Asia Society in Washington, D.C. 2007 Nov/Dec.07 - America's Strategic Opportunity With India, R. Nicholas Burns, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs 10.24.07 - Economic Power and Promise of India, Remarks by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. before The Council on Foreign Relations 10.01.07 - India's Foreign Policy and Future India-US Relations, Indian Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee 09.18.07 - Indo-US military ties are inevitable, General V P Malik (retd) in RediffNews 08.09.2007 - Power Plays: Business Implications of the Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal, Knowledge India@Wharton 08.03.2007 - Text of US-India Civil Nuclear Agreement 07.27.2007 - Nicholas Burns on the US-India 123 Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreement 06.27.2007 - Remarks At the U.S.-India Business Council 32nd Anniversary Global India Summit, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice 06.21.2007 - INDIA: Modest Global Power, analysis by John Feffer 06.19.2007 - Obama acknowledges "that Indian American concerns are entirely justified", Rediff India Abroad interview with Senator Barack Obama 05.23.2007 - "U.S. - India Relations: The Road Ahead", Heritage Foundation in-depth discussion exploring the range of opportunities in furthering U.S.-India ties and the broader stakes of the relationship in helping to promote stability in Asia and beyond. 05.23.2007 - "A Future Unbound: U.S.-India Relations, R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Remarks to the Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC 04.29.2007 - 'Heady Times' For India And the U.S., by Nicholas Burns, Undersecretary of State 04.04.2007 - U.S.-India Defense Relations: Strategic Perspectives, Center for Strategic and International Studies - South Asia Monitor 03.11.2007 - Walker's World: India's new alliances, United Press International 02.22.2007 - The United States, India, and the World, Carnegie Endowment 01.22.2007 - India's Rising Growth Potential, Goldman Sachs Global Economic Update (PDF) 01.17.2007 - US-India Strategic Partnership: Where is it Headed? Presentation by Ram Narayanan to SAPRA, New Delhi, India. 2006 12.19.2006 - The New Great Game by Daniel Twining in The Weekly Standard 12.18.2006 - U.S.-India Relations: Interview with Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs 12.18.2006 - The other rising Asian space power 12.8.2006 - U.S. Council on Foreign Relations: Indias Energy Crunch 12.6.2006 - Indias demographic dividend by Bibek Debroy, secretary general, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi 12.5.2006 - 'In 2020 the two closest nations
in the world will be India and US' 12.4.2006 - 'No evidence that India has transferred
lethal weapons to Iran' 12.4.2006 - India and China are the only real
Brics in the wall 11.30.2006 - Poll finds India now ranks fifth in "warm" feelings of Americans 11.27.2006 - U.S. Policy in South Asia: R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Remarks to the Asia Society, Washington, DC 10.27.2006 - World Bank: India's Demographic Advantage 09.21.2006 - Most Indians think improving relations with US is a good thing: Pew Global Attitudes Project Spring 2006 Survey of six nations 08.18.2006 - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addresses concerns in India on US-India Civil Nuclear Deal 06.16.2006 - US-India
Nuclear Cooperation: A Strategy for Moving Forward 04.05.2006 - Remarks
on the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative 03.2006 - Talking Points about US-India Civilian
Nuclear Cooperation 03.2006 - India
'Poised to Shoulder Global Obligations' 03.10.2006 - Letter from a group of 28 eminent scholars, diplomats and former US Government officials calling for an endorsement of the India- US civil nuclear cooperation agreement 03.09.2006 - Five Rejoinders to Tom Friedman's faux pas on the US-India Nuclear Agreement 03.08.2006 - India Civil Nuclear Cooperation:
Responding to Critics 03.08.2006 - Implementing
India's separation plan 03.06.2006 - Interview of R. Nicholas Burns, Under
Secretary for Political Affairs; Shabana Azmi, Actress and Social Activist
03.02.2006 - President Discusses Strong U.S.-India
Partnership 03.02.2006 - George Bush-Manmohan Singh Joint Statement 03.02.2006 - United States and India: Strategic Partnership 03.02.2006 - President Bush and Prime Minister Singh 03.02.2006 - Press Briefing by Under Secretary of
State for Political Affairs Nick Burns 03.02.2006 - State Dept: U.S.-India: Strengthening a Global Partnership 01.22.2006 - President
Addresses Asia Society, Discusses India 2005 12.21.2005 - Transforming
India-US Relations: Forging a Strategic Partnership 10.25.2005 - Who's
running nuke Wal-Mart, asks Saran 10.18.2005 - The U.S. and India:
The New Strategic Partnership 09.2005 - Natural
Allies? Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic
Cooperation 09.08.2005 - Burns Seeks Congressional Support of
US-India Nuclear Deal Summer 2005 - The India Imperative 07.26.2005 - Energy Trends in China and India:
Implications for the US 07.20.2005 - Indian Prime Minister Discusses
Key Issues 07.19.2005 - Engaging India as a Global Strategic
Partner 07.19.2005 - 'There is much we can accomplish
together' 07.18.2005 - Programs that will strengthen
the partnership between United States and India 07.18.2005 - Bush-Manmohan Summit: Joint Statement 07.15.2005 - Indo-US Relations in the coming
decades 07.2005 - India
as a New Global Power: An Action Agenda for the US 07.2005 - India
- US Relations: A Vision for the Future Update 2005 - Nonproliferation
Export Controls in India Update 2005 - Nonproliferation
Export Controls in India 06.27.2005 - Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee
Speech 06.27.2005 - Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee
on India's Strategic Perspectives 06.24.2005 - Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs R. Nicholas Burns 04.14.2005 - Secretary Condi Rice meets Indian Foreign
Minister Natwar Singh 03.25.2005 - State Department Briefing: South Asia's Future Vital to US 03.11.2005 - US plays Patriot against Israel's
Arrow 02.2005 - The
US-India Relationship: Strategic Partnership or Complementary Interests? 01.17.2005 - Is a solid and comprehensive US-India
strategic partnership inevitable? 2004 11.15.2004 - Managing the Differences 10.12.2004 - Presidential Candidate Sen. John Kerry:
I will recognize the vital global role India will play in the 21st Century 09.24.2004 - India and the US: Towards
a New Partnership 09.03.2004 - President Bush Interviewed 07.23.2004 - New Indian Ambassador to the United
States: Ronen Sen 07.06.2004 - US-India Relations: A Strategic Pause 06.25.2004 - New Indian Ambassador to the United
States: Ronen Sen 06.14.2004 - The
United States and South Asia: Ashley Tellis 06.10.2004 - Transcript of Joint Press Conference: Colin Powell and Natwar Singh 05.20.2004 - Forging
a New US-India Engagement 04.27.2004 - Letter to Senator John Kerry 01.29.2004 - New High-Tech Accord will Boost
Evolving US-India Strategic Relationship 01.2004 - Building a Culture of Innovation - The
Role of the Intellectual Diaspora 01.2004 - Next
Steps in Strategic Partnership with India 2002 09.2002 - India
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