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Step up as the regional power

US urges India ahead of Narendra Modi's Washington visit

Reuters, New Delhi
The United States yesterday urged India to bolster its role as a global power and force for regional stability, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first visit to Washington since his election in May.
In a speech wrapping up two days of talks, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel also played up deepening defence industry cooperation but did not have any major new arms export deals to announce.
"The United States strongly supports India's growing global influence and military capabilities including its potential as a security provider from the Indian Ocean to the greater Pacific," Hagel told an invited audience
Both Washington and New
Delhi share concerns about the increasing geopolitical assertiveness of China, which from economic parity with India in 1980 now has an economy that is four times as large.
India, which has embraced
tion on missile systems.
Hagel, in a speech at the Observer Research Foundation, a privately funded think-tank, noted that India had spent $9 billion on US defence equipment since 2008 - compared to half a
non-alignment since independence in 1947, long relied on the Soviet Union to equip its armed forces. But, in recent years, it has become the largest buyer of US weaponry.
Before Hagel's visit, Indian officials played
billion dollars before then.
“But we can do more to forge a defence industrial partnership," he said, calling to "transform our nations' defence cooperation from simply buying and
up chances that orders for US Apache and Chinook helicopters, both made by Boeing, might advance. No announcement was made on those deals but officials have said the two sides would deepen coopera-
selling to co-production, codevelopment and freer exchange of technology."
Hagel's visit, which followed Secretary of State John Kerry's a week earlier, seeks to lay the ground for Modi's first trip to