Outgoing US Defence Secretary, Ashton Carter has said that India is destined to be a strategic partner of the United States. Addressing an audience at Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Carter said, US have a number of programmes that is a link to India’s ‘Make in India’ initiative in the defence sphere.
He said in defence ties, both the countries moved beyond a traditional vendor-buyer relation into a phase of co-development and co-production. He said by dint of corresponding systems of government, democracies, both countries are quite diverse, vibrant, and innovative cultures in ways that are interestingly aligned.