WEB DESK
Describing India as the “biggest strategic opportunity” for the US, a former top Pentagon official today said the two countries now need to demonstrate “mutual flexibility” as well as ambition to reach a new level of cooperation.
Kelly Magsamen, the former US principal deputy assistant secretary of defence for Asian and pacific security affairs told this to members of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee during a Congressional hearing on Asia Pacific region.
He said the US and India increasingly share a common strategic outlook on the Asia Pacific, especially a mutual concern over Chinese military modernisation and adventurism.
Magsamen said to reach a new level of cooperation to place limits on Chinese ambition, both the United States and India should together persist in overcoming the suspicions of the past and build stronger habits of actual cooperation.