From Presidential Visits to Boardroom Decisions What strikes me, looking back across the history of U.S. presidential visits to India, is how closely political alignment has tracked commercial reality. Each visit reduced friction; each milestone normalized trust. Over time, what was once a diplomatic curiosity became a business inevitability. Since...
Barack Obama Revisits India
Former president Barack Obama completed a three nation tour to China, India and France recently. In his first visit to India after leaving office, Obama met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, addressed a Leadership Summit sponsored by the Hindustan Times newspaper, and held a town hall meeting...
Westinghouse Nuclear Project in India Still Alive
The bankruptcy filing at Westinghouse Nuclear threatened to scuttle the multi-billion-dollar reactor deal made by former U.S. President Barack Obama and India's Prime Minister Modi during the Washington summit last June, , Westinghouse CEO Jose Gutierrez was in India for talks with state-run National Power Corp of India Ltd and...
U.S. Legislation Codifies India as a Major Defense Partner
In the last week of December, President Barack Obama signed a legislation that codifies India as a “Major Defense Partner”, a definition that institutionalizes and commits future government, unless recalled. The intent of the legislation is to bolster India as “predominant security provider in the Indian Ocean Region”, and direct...
Congress Declares India a Major Defense Partner
The U.S. Congress has cleared legislation for designating India as a “major defense partner”, with the Senate passing the $618 billion American defense budget for 2017. The bill was passed earlier by the U.S. House of Representatives by 375-34 votes, and President Barack Obama is expected to sign it into...
Obama to spend more time in India than any other country so far
According to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Ambassador Robert Blake, President Barack H. Obama will make a three-day visit to India that will mark another seminal milestone in our bilateral relations. " This will mark his longest stay anywhere outside the U.S. said Blake,...