{"id":9559,"date":"2026-07-31T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgunew\/?p=9559"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:30:08","slug":"us-ambassador-to-india-eric-garcetti-delivers-distinguished-public-lecture-at-jgu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/us-ambassador-to-india-eric-garcetti-delivers-distinguished-public-lecture-at-jgu\/","title":{"rendered":"US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti delivers distinguished public lecture at JGU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal India Institute, and Jindal Global Centre for G20 Studies jointly hosted Mr. Eric M. Garcetti, Ambassador of the United States of America to India, on JGU campus on April 8. Ambassador Garcetti delivered a distinguished public lecture on the theme \u2018The Most Consequential Relationship of the Century: Indo-American Ties\u2019 during his visit to the campus.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Garcetti\u2019s perspective on Indo-American ties focused on the shared aspirations and the collective pursuit of a world characterised by what he called \u20184 Ps\u2019: peace, prosperity, planet, and people. He narrated personal memories of magical moments he experienced during his visits to India since childhood. He said he had a deep emotional connection with India for decades and stated \u201cIndia never left my soul\u201d. He mentioned US President Joe Biden had told him that India \u201cwas the most important country in the world\u201d and that Washington\u2019s ties with New Delhi were \u201cthe most consequential\u201d for shaping the world order in the 21st century.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Garcetti termed the ties between the US and India as \u201cnot an additive relationship but a multiplicative relationship\u201d between the world\u2019s two largest democracies, underscored by a robust exchange in education, trade, and the joint venture of envisioning a green energy future. During the interactive session that followed, the audience engaged the Ambassador on a diverse array of topics spanning domestic politics in India, racial discrimination in the US, regional security dynamics in the Indo-Pacific, the role of artificial intelligence and critical and emerging technologies in the US-India strategic partnership, and the potential of multilateral groupings like the Quad being expanded or extended to include more countries.<\/p>\n

On controversies regarding comments made by the US about internal developments in India, Ambassador Garcetti said that the US is a unique democracy where every branch of government, the news media and civil society has its own views and opinions about different countries. These opinions are frequently aired publicly as part of the open American political system. At the same time, the US is ready to also take criticism from other countries as part of this liberal ethos. Ambassador Garcetti praised India for organising mammoth general elections with nearly one billion voters in the electorate and said that \u201cthe US has something to learn from India\u201d in how to improve its electoral practices and procedures.<\/p>\n

On the question of Arunachal Pradesh being an integral part of India, the Ambassador was categorical that China has no business to rename places that are part of India\u2019s sovereign territory. He reiterated that the US fully supports India\u2019s sovereignty and that the defence cooperation between the two partners is reaching unprecedented levels so as to deter aggressive authoritarian rival countries. He said that as two democracies, the US and India thought and felt alike about the threat posed by dictatorial regimes like that of China and that the convergence of values was the key factor driving Washington and New Delhi closer.<\/p>\n

Speaking on this occasion, Dr. C. Raj Kumar, the Founding Vice Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University, remarked, \u201cWe owe a tremendous intellectual debt to American universities for their open and generous support and capacity building of Indian higher education institutions. The way US universities have attained the highest standards in the world and solved the most intractable problems facing humanity is worth learning from and emulating for Indian academia. Education is going to be a transformative driving factor in the US-India partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dean of the Jindal School of International Affairs, Dr. Sreeram Chaulia, cited Ambassador Garcetti\u2019s view that the US-India partnership had presently only reached the point of being \u201cmidway up the mountain\u201d and referred to the limitless possibilities that lay ahead. Dr. Chaulia echoed India\u2019s External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar\u2019s comments that \u201cyou ain\u2019t seen anything yet\u201d in the US-India friendship and pointed to the fact that \u201cthe two countries were jointly combating shared adversaries and remaking the Indo-Pacific in a way that only allies do.\u201d While the US and India are not formal allies, many of the domains of bilateral cooperation are \u201cgoing in the direction of a de facto alliance-like friendship.\u201d Owing to this level of close intimacy, it is not uncommon that the US and India disagree on some matters. But \u201cthe basic fundamentals of the relationship are so strong that such disagreements and differences in assessment should not be exaggerated,\u201d Dr. Chaulia noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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