'Much Of Asia's Future Will Be Written In India'

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic Party’s nominee in the 2016 US presidential elections and keynote speaker at the India Today Conclave 2018, on the common challenges facing India, the United States and the world.

India’s future and development are tied to what goes on in the rest of the world at the crossroads, particularly the democracies in our world. Our shared future in the 21st century and beyond will be written, to a great extent, in Asia. And much of the future of Asia will be written here in India and its 1.3 billion people. That was part of the inspiration behind the pivot to Asia that I helped advocate as the Secretary of State. What I see is India opening markets to the world, helping fuel a more prosperous South Asia, making science and technology leaps, advancing human knowledge and innovation, and exporting that.