Amid the rising assertiveness of China, the worldviews and interests of U.S. and India are presently converging in unprecedented ways. After President Joe Biden took office, the Indo-Pacific has become the front and center of U.S. foreign policy as Washington adopts a renewed multilateral approach in the region. How will U.S.-India relations evolve in the post-pandemic era? What does the first 100 days of the Biden administration tell us? How important are shared values in the overall context of bilateral relations? To address these questions, the Rising Powers Initiative at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and Christ University in Bangalore, invited a panel of leading experts to discuss the prospects for U.S. India relations, including Alyssa Ayres, Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, Daniel Twining, President of the International Republican Institute, Joshua White, Associate Professor of Practice of South Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Richard M. Rossow, Senior Adviser and Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at Center for Strategic & International Studies.

The purpose of the conference was to engage a younger demographic of students and young professionals in Bangalore and around the region on new directions in U.S.-India cooperation related to growing challenges in the Indo-Pacific. The conference attracted over 700 registrants and nearly 600 attendees. In this Policy Brief we examine the panel’s insights on how the U.S. and India could develop comprehensive relations beyond security and economic interests in the coming years.

Read the Policy Breif here.