New Delhi: Emphasising the growth in defence cooperation between India and US, former US assistance secretary Vikram Singh on Saturday said defence cooperation happens at three levels - the strong leadership, people to take the deals forward and public and private sector partnership.
While talking about US plans about Asia, Senior Fellow at Centre for Strategic and International Studies Richard Rossow said, "US wants a multipolar Asia in the future so that no single country can dominate the Asian agenda."
The panel also discussed about the role of Russia and India's historic defence ties with it. Former Indian ambassador to US and nuclear negotiator Rakesh Sood said "US has now emerged as the single largest supplier of defence equipments. However Russia still supplies two-thirds of our defence equipments".
He stressed on the need to have a strong joint development, research and manufacturing of equipments instead of just being the 'sellers' and 'buyers'.
Talking about PM Modi's initiatives, CEO of Business Council for International Understanding Peter Tichansky said "audacity and impatience of Modi are extremely welcome. He wants to do it".
The panel included Vikram Singh (former US assistance secretary of defense), Rakesh Sood (former ambassador and nuclear negotiator) and C Raja Mohan (distinguished fellow of ORF) along with American experts Rick Rossow (Centre for Strategic and International Studies) and Peter Tichansky (CEO of Business Council for International Understanding).
In the lead up to President Obama's historic second visit to India, The Observer Research Foundation and Network 18 have initiated the India-US Dialogues.
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