The US Vice President, JD Vance, offers comments at the Rajasthan International Center in Jaipur, India, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Photo credit: Kenny Holston/Pool through Reuters
The United States is looking to sell more energy and defense teams to India, Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday, adding that the ties between the two countries will shape the century.
“If India and the United States work together successfully, we will see a 21st century that is prosperous and peaceful,” he said in a speech in the Indian city of the northwest of Jaipur.
“But I also believe that if we don’t work together successfully, the 21st century could be a very dark moment for all humanity.”
Hello, he also repeatedly praised the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his dinner on Monday. Vance is on a mainly personal visit to India along with his wife, daughter of Indian immigrants and her three children.
The trip comes at a time when India hastened to achieve an early commercial agreement with the United States, its largest commercial partner, before the end of the 90 -day pause in the pronounced tariffs announced by the administration of President Donald Trump.
“Prime Minister Modi is a difficult negotiator. He leads a hard treatment,” Vance told a great laugh of the audience.
India expects to “positively conclude” the first part of a commercial pact for autumn, said the Minister of Finance of India, Nirmala Sitharaman, in San Francisco.
Vance said he and Modi advanced well in commercial conversations, and confirmed that the two parties had finished the terms of reference for commercial negotiation.
“It establishes a road map to a final agreement between our nations,” he said.
(This is a development story and will be updated as there is more information available).
Posted on April 22, 2025