The Joe Biden administration will not tolerate terrorism in South Asia, according to former diplomat Tony Blinken, who is now chief foreign policy advisor to Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate.
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A senior election campaign official said that the Biden administration will be an advocate for India to play a leadership role in international institutions, including helping it secure a seat on the reformed United Nations Security Council, stressing that New Delhi should be a major American partner. In engaging China from a position of strength.
The Joe Biden administration will not tolerate terrorism in South Asia, according to former diplomat Tony Blinken, who is now chief foreign policy advisor to Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate.
During his participation in a panel discussion on “US-Indian and American-Indian relations in the Joe Biden administration,” Tony Blinken said that the former vice president, if elected in the November elections, would help India secure a seat on the UN Security Council. And strengthening US defense relations with India.
"I think you will see Joe Biden as a president who invests in ourselves, renews our democracy, works with our close partners like India, affirms our values and shares China from a position of strength. India should be a key partner in this effort," said Tony Blinken in response to a question from Richard Verma, Ambassador of the States. The former United India.
The top campaign official was asked that the world has witnessed increasing Chinese aggression in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, including along the Indian border and India faces real threats of cross-border terrorism, and how the United States in Joe Biden's administration will support India in these challenges.
During the Obama administration, we worked hard to establish India as a major contributor to the Indo-Pacific strategy. This includes India's role in working with like-minded partners to promote and support a rule-based order in the Indo-Pacific region where no country, including China, can threaten its neighbors with impunity.
“This role should extend beyond the region, as wide as the whole world. In the administration of Joe Biden, we will be advocating for India to play a leading role in international institutions. This includes helping India secure a seat Tony Blinken’s response to the reform of the United Nations Security Council .
"We will work together to strengthen India's defense and I can also add its capabilities as a partner in counter-terrorism. On the issue of terrorism, specifically, we do not tolerate terrorism, in South Asia or anywhere else: cross-border or otherwise," he said.
He said that during the Obama administration he was in various meetings of the National Security Council on this topic.
"We have used every tool at our disposal to make sure that our citizens and those of our partners are safe, and that is something that we will build on in the Biden administration," said Tony Blinken.
Former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal said the partnership between the United States and India was vitally important as a specific partnership for the 21st century as described by the Obama administration.
“You cannot have a deep and trusted partnership between the United States and India if you do not have a strong respect for the people of India and people of Indian origin. Relationships between peoples are fundamentally important in all the different ways that really characterize this relationship,” Biswal said, without that, and without those ties. Among our peoples, it is really just a reciprocal relationship to achieve a means to an end, so to speak.
She was responding to a question about recent steps the Trump administration has taken regarding H-1B visas that are having an impact on a large number of Indian tech professionals.
In June, President Donald Trump banned entry to the United States of workers on several major non-immigrant visa categories, including H-1B, until the end of the year, under the pretext that they are eating American jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those affected include members of the H-1B and L-1 family and certain categories of J1 visas.
However, this week, the Trump administration announced certain exceptions to the H-1B and L-1 travel ban for those who continue to work with the same employer, a move that could help Indian IT professionals and healthcare workers.
The H-1B visa is a nonimmigrant visa that allows US companies to hire foreign workers in specialized occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Companies rely on them to employ tens of thousands of employees every year from countries like India and China.
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