US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will visit India to focus on strategic technology cooperation, including defense, space, and AI, while also addressing concerns about the environmental impact of Chinese dams.
US national security adviser will travel to India for visit focusing on cooperation on strategic technology, including in defence, space and AI, officials say, adding Chinese dams will be discussed as well. Ties between both sides have been strained by US prosecutors' accusation that an official in Modi's government was involved in a foiled assassination plot against an activist of India's Sikh minority in New York.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan's visit to New Delhi from January 5-6 is expected to include discussions with Indian counterparts about the impact of Chinese dams, a senior US official has said. 'We've certainly seen in many places in the Indo-Pacific that upstream dams that the Chinese have created, including in the Mekong region, can have really potentially damaging environmental but also climate impacts on downstream countries,' a senior US official said on Friday ahead of Sullivan's visit. Sullivan is expected to meet with Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.Washington and its Western allies are trying to position India as a counter to China's rising influence in Asia and beyond. But some analysts doubt this strategy's effectiveness. The Indian government says it has conveyed its concerns to Beijing about China's plan to build a hydropower dam in Tibet on the Yarlung Zangbo River which flows into India. Chinese officials say that hydropower projects in Tibet will not have a major impact on the environment or on downstream water supplies. The construction of that dam, which will be the largest of its kind in the world with an estimated capacity of 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, was approved last month. Washington also expects that topics such as civilian nuclear cooperation, artificial intelligence, space, military licensing and Chinese economic overcapacity will be brought up in the visit, the US official sai
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