Modi-Biden meet to see US lifting curbs to start advanced defence, tech cooperation with India

The meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden in Washington D.C. next week is likely to see the United States lifting restrictions that in the past hindered its cooperation with India in advanced technology, including in the fields of defence, artificial intelligence, space, quantum computing and telecommunication.

“As we look ahead to the state visit Prime Minister Modi will be embarking upon in Washington next week… a number of the deliverables at the visit are not just bullet points on a page,” Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in New Delhi on Tuesday. “They are fundamentally designed to remove those obstacles in defence trade,