Please treat India as a friend only, based on equality, we are not your NATO partners or underlings
Shri Narendra Modi and Mr Joe Biden, President of USA, had announced the U.S.-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) in May 2022 to elevate and expand our strategic technology partnership and defence industrial cooperation between the two governments, businesses, and academic institutions of two countries.
The two leaders had announced the launch of a new Working Group on Talent, Innovation and Inclusive Growth under the Commercial Dialogue that would also support efforts under iCET, particularly in identifying specific regulatory hurdles to cooperation and fostering greater connectivity between our innovation ecosystem.
The above was followed up by Shri Ajit Doval, Indian NSA and his US counterpart Jake Sullivan leading the inaugural meeting of the iCET in Washington in January this year.
Both sides recognized the need for increased bilateral strategic and high technology trade and collaboration, based on equality,given the shared priority of building resilient and trusted global supply chains and the mutual interest in taking forward the outcomes of iCET.
Therefore Ms D Rozman Kendler, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, saying at a media interaction here on Friday that India, as a major defence partner, does receive benefits under the US system that other countries do not receive. This indicates that the old mind-set is difficult to change. We Indians have been actively trying to encourage the American politicians and administrators to change their outdated and conceited thinking but it seems that Commonsense is not that common.
Kendler, is in India to build on the visit of US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s to India last month, said the two countries share a common security outlook which makes cooperation much easier. During her five-day visit, Kendler met Indian government officials and industry representatives to discuss dual-use export controls issues.
She also engaged in final planning for the US-India Strategic Trade Dialogue (USISTD), the first meeting of which is slated to be held in Washington next month.Kendler said USISTD provides a building block for the initiative on critical and emerging technologies (iCET).
It should get into American heads that India is not like Pakistan, we buy things from you with hard cash just as you buy from us. We are not begging for your technology but ready to pay, if you are willing to sell or just shut up.
We deal with Russia, France and Israel based on equality and all Americans will be encouraged to do business with India in the same manner. Trying to DICTATE will get you no where. Trying to “ buy us “ too will not get you anywhere.
Kendler also said, probably in a very condescending manner that there are very minimal licence requirements for India and the United States treats the country “as though our NATO partner under our export controls,” a senior Biden Administration official said on Friday and noted that the requirement of licence for US exports to India has drastically come down over the past 25 years……….well Kendler sahiba, we are not your NATO PARTNERS and so just treat us accordingly as a natural friend. Rest be assured we will respect your Intellectual Property Rights if it is fair, also we will not transfer your technology to others, but don’t try to dictate. It will not be acceptable.
So remarks uttered by Kendler that there is a licence exception available for some trade items from the United States that Indian companies and US exporters do not seem to be using very much does not go far.
Kendler said strategic trade dialogue and shared commitment to export controls pave the way for hi-tech cooperation between the two countries……..please, please don’t overstep on our ties talking about EXPORT CONTROL. As a merchant, once you have sold to us then thereafter you will not interfere. It is OK if you just refuse to sell in the first place.
So we Indians will encourage to just forget that you even uttered something like…”Very minimal licence requirements for India.
We treat India as though our NATO partner under our export controls and we understand that there are items that could move more efficiently and smoothly from the United States to India,” she said.
“Our partnership is long and progress has been steady. If you compare 25 years ago, in 1998, one-quarter of US exports to India required an export licence from the US government. Now 25 years later, only 0.5 per cent of US exports to India require a licence.
We are here today because India has established strategic trade laws, effectively implementing regulations. Robust strategic trade controls enable us to share technology that we can’t share with others,” she added. She said it “is such a consequential time for India-US relations”.
Well, we Indians will say that It was for you to change and you have certainly changed a lot. In 1962 you were offering arms “aid “. By 1971 you were threatening to intervene with nuclear armed naval fleet.
Now you are trying to befriend us to take on China and begging us to severe our time tested friendship with Russia !!!!!!
