Amity University visits American Centre to Discuss US-India Relations

On 17th November 2022, The US Embassy hosted a student interaction session at the American Centre with the US Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Carlos Del Toro. The students from AIIS had a fruitful discussion with the chief guest where Mr. Del Toro gave a clear understanding about US being India’s major defence partner as well as their naval partnership being crucial. The US wants to invest in India marks a major point of increasing in the bonding of the two nations for which they have emphasised upon the need for free sea links which will also uplift their economic status.

The discussion further went on the cultural transformation as well as the issues of cyber warfare and traditional-non traditional issues of security. Mr. Del Toro also expressed his opinion that they speculate a lack of cooperation between Russia and China and they believe that the US can strongly deter China from their current behaviour. 

In the end, AIIS raised a question pertaining to US’s confidence on the members of BRICS to which Mr. Del Toro simply replied that they have high confidence on India, Brazil and South Africa. However they find it skeptical to have the same for Russia and China.