Senate India caucus chief seeks stronger ties to counter China

Senator Mark Warner, the co-chair of the India caucus, has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s State visit to the US is a moment to cement India-America ties into a “full-fledged partnership”, stressed that India’s time has arrived, and announced that he will introduce a legislation this week to include India in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato)+5 arrangement to boost defence ties between the two countries and overcome bureaucratic obstacles

- Prashant Jha

WASHINGTON: Warner, who is also the chair of the Senate intelligence committee, making him one of the most influential figures on the Hill, said that China posed a challenge to both India and the US in a variety of ways and Delhi and Washington DC needed to find more common ground. He added that he was also looking forward to having conversations with Modi on the initiative on critical and emerging technologies (iCET) and expanding India-US ties in the fields of telecom and wireless technologies, semiconductors, synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and more.