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New Delhi: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumes office for the third time, India-US bilateral engagement will begin here on Monday with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan meeting with NSA Ajit Doval for the second very expected from the Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) initiative on June 17-18.

According to senior government officials, the main iCET meeting will be held tomorrow and will focus on reviewing all projects discussed at the Washington meeting on January 31, 2023, including GE jet engine technology transfer -414 for Tejas Mark II fighters. .

While Western and Chinese media are trying to end India-US bilateral relations by deliberately bringing up the alleged assassination attempt of US-based proscribed Khalistani terrorist GS Pannun, the interaction of the G -7 between Prime Minister Modi and US President Joe Biden made it clear that the ties are as deep as before. The fact is that before Prime Minister Modi landed in Puglia for the G-7 outreach on June 13, Western media were questioning NSA Sullivan about whether President Biden was avoiding Prime Minister Modi because of the Pannun question, as if all bilateral relations were based on forbidden things. SFJ terrorist.

According to G7 interlocutors, Prime Minister Modi and President Biden are clearly interested in advancing their relations amid the threat of an expansionist China in the Indo-Pacific region.

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The fact is that an American team is already in India to negotiate the sale of 31 Predator MQ 9B armed drones to India, just as a French team is in India to negotiate the purchase of 26 Rafale-Maritime fighters for the INS Vikrant. NSA Ajit Doval is expected to be in Paris on June 20-21 for a meeting with his counterpart Emmanuel Bonne and his military counterpart to deepen military ties.

At tomorrow’s iCET meeting, NSA Doval and Sullivan will discuss the draft of a new bilateral defense industrial cooperation roadmap aimed at accelerating technological cooperation between the two countries for the joint development and production of jet engines , errant ammunition and other systems.

The other issue under consideration is creating a resilient semiconductor supply chain in India through joint ventures. Other issues under discussion will include space cooperation, quantum computing and next-generation telecommunications.