{"id":71597,"date":"2025-04-22T18:11:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=71597"},"modified":"2025-04-22T18:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:11:45","slug":"us-looking-to-sell-more-energy-defense-equipment-to-india-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/us-looking-to-sell-more-energy-defense-equipment-to-india-vance\/","title":{"rendered":"US looking to sell more energy, defense equipment to India: Vance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (REUTERS) : The<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-flags-ingos-for-policy-interference-as-us-freezes-39-usaid-projects\/\"> United States<\/a> is looking to sell more energy and defence equipment to India, Vice President JD <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/trumps-zelensky-outburst-a-culmination-of-weeks-of-frustration\/\">Vance<\/a> said on Tuesday on a visit\u00a0to the country, adding that ties between the two countries will shape the century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf India and the United States work together successfully, we\u2019re going to see a 21st century that is prosperous and peaceful,\u201d he said in a speech in the northwestern Indian city of Jaipur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I also believe that if we fail to work together successfully, the 21st century could be a very dark time for all of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also repeatedly praised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi following their dinner yesterday. Vance is on a mostly personal,\u00a0four-day visit\u00a0to India along with his wife, who is the daughter of Indian immigrants, and their three children.<\/p>\n<p>The trip comes at a time when India is rushing to clinch an\u00a0early trade deal with the US, its largest trading partner, before the end of the 90-day pause on the steep tariffs announced by President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrime Minister Modi is a tough negotiator. He drives a hard bargain,\u201d Vance said to a big laugh from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>India hopes to \u201cpositively conclude\u201d the first part of a trade pact by autumn, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in San Francisco on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Vance said he and Modi made good progress on trade talks, and confirmed that the two sides had finalised the terms of reference for the trade negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sets a roadmap toward a final deal between our nations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (REUTERS) : The United States is looking to sell more energy and defence equipment to India, Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday on a visit\u00a0to the country, adding that ties between the two countries will shape the century. \u201cIf India and the United States work together successfully, we\u2019re going to see a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":71598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7228,875,139,28075],"class_list":["post-71597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-modi","tag-usa","tag-india","tag-jd-vance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71599,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71597\/revisions\/71599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}