India-US relationship broad, deep and growing, says key Senator

The relationship between India and the US is broad, deep and rising, a prime American Senator stated on Thursday and expressed condolences over the lack of Indian troopers’ lives in a face-off with Chinese troops alongside the Line of Actual Control.

Twenty Indian Army personnel have been killed within the violent clashes in jap Ladakh’s Galwan Valley on June 15.

“The US-India relationship is broad, deep, and growing – and we discussed how vital the cooperation between our nations is to countering common challenges and aggression in the region and upholding a rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific,” stated Senator Cory Gardner after his name with India’s ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu.

The Republican Senator from Colorado is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy. His workplace stated he had a productive telephone dialog with Sandhu concerning the significance of US-India relations.

“Today I began my call with Ambassador Sandhu by expressing my sincere condolences on the loss of Indian lives at the Line of Actual Control between India and China,” he stated.

“I look forward to continuing to work with Ambassador Sandhu to grow the bond between the United States and India, which will be supported by my Asia Reassurance Initiative Act, signed into law in 2018,” Gardner stated.

The Senator authored the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) of 2018, which was signed into legislation on December 31, 2018. The ARIA represents a generational coverage framework to boost US management within the Indo-Pacific area and to reveal a dedication to a free and open Indo-Pacific.

The Indo-Pacific is a key precedence space for the US armed forces falling underneath the authority of the United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), unified combatant command accountable for enhancing stability within the Asia-Pacific area.

China has been quick increasing navy and financial affect within the Indo-Pacific area, triggering concern in numerous international locations of the area and past.