Marco Rubio Talks Cooperation On Counter-terrorism, Critical Minerals & Global Stability | News18

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[00:00:00]First of all, thank you for your very warm welcome and uh it's it's been a phenomenal visit already and it's only been a day and we have so much more work to do and it's an it's an honor to be here with all of you in this important visit uh to one of our most important strategic partners in the world and I want to highlight that point for a minute. Uh we obviously have relations and we work with countries all over the world and we need to just as India does.

[00:00:24]Um and and we have all kinds of alliances and partnerships with countries that we work on. Sometimes on discreet and individualized issues, other times on broader issues that involve one region of the world or another. A strategic partnership is something very different. It's something much broader than that. A strategic partnership is when your interests as two nations are aligned and you work together strategically to solve those problems. And the list of issues that we work together with India on the breadth and scope of them is what highlights the fact that India is an important strategic partner of the United States, one of our most important strategic partners in the world. It begins with the fact of our shared values. We are the two largest democracies in the world. And so obviously that in and of itself begins to align our interests simply because our leaders respond directly to voters and people on a regular basis. Which means I have to go back and justify to the American people every decision we make. and and the president has to do the same on why it's good for our country and our counterparts here in India have to do the exact same thing. You have to respond to the people of India about why your partnership with the United States or your stance on any issue for that matter is to the benefit of your country. I imagine this is true in every country in the world to some degree. But it is particularly true for democracies.

[00:01:36]Democracies respond directly to the people and you have to respond constantly. And democracies you have opposition parties. You have a free and open media. By the way, you have a lot of media. We have media in our cover.

[00:01:47]You guys have a lot of media. And there's that means a lot of scrutiny, a lot of attention. But that begins to align our interests immediately because we both recognize and have mutual respect and understanding that every decision we make, every announcement we make, everything we work together on, we ultimately have to go back and justify it to our voters, to our people, the people who put us in these positions to begin with. The second point I would make is that our partnership from a strategic standpoint is not limited to a regional one. Now clearly there are regional issues in the Indo-Pacific that are important to both of our countries but the ability increasingly as we have conversations we are talking about strategic interests that align beyond simply the region whether it's your visit last week into the western hemisphere we have a lot of alignment whether it's our our mutual interest of what's happening currently now in the straits of Hormuz and beyond and and then on the topics as well if you talk about the topics that we have a mutual interest on both countries our strategic allies on the on the idea that access to critical minerals and supply chains are are are essential an essential issue in the 21st century. The overconentration of reliance on a single source for anything particularly things that are vital for our economies is is one of the great challenges of the 21st century and we are strategically aligned on that topic. On the in on the issue of terrorism, both of our countries have suffered both directly and indirectly because of global terrorist networks.

[00:03:10]There is a strong counterterrorism alignment as a result of that uh on innovation and ensuring that all of the promises of new technologies and new advances in the 21st century all of them come with risks and rewards. Every technological advancement that's made individuals and societies more productive have always come with risks associated with them. Managing those risks and maximizing those benefits is one of the great challenges of the 21st century and there's a tremendous strategic alliance between our countries and agreement on that point. Likewise on the unimpeded flow of commerce especially in international airspace and international waters. Um this is true in the Indoacific ensuring that there's a free and and open Indoacific but it extends beyond the Indoacific. We share as a strategic value the fact that no international waterway, no international airspace should ever be used or or nationalized by any country in the world and that that should never be accepted as a new normal. Another area of strong strategic alignment and we could go on and on. The bottom line is that the opportunities exist to work together because not just our shared and common values and our people-to-people ties, but because our nations are strategically aligned on all of the key issues that will define the new century.

[00:04:24]All of the great challenges that are before us now in the modern era, we are strategically aligned on. And the final point and this I mean is no disrespect to any other country in the world but you can have a strategic alliance with countries but there are only a handful of countries in the world that have the ability to actually do something about these big issues on a global scale.

[00:04:43]There are only a handful of countries in the world that have both the economic and diplomatic power to be influential on strategic issues from a global perspective and India is one of them which is what adds the the finishing touches on the importance of the strategic alliance is we have a strategic alliance between the United States and India. It's a strategic alliance between two countries that have global influence and the ability to influence global events and that distinguishes it from other relationships. And so that's why this is an important visit to be here today.

[00:05:16]It's why we hope that later this year the prime minister will will visit us in Washington. It's why I hope our leaders will have a chance to interact and other forums. And I also want to thank you by the way for uh hosting the latest meeting of the foreign ministers of the quad which will be happening the day after tomorrow I believe right day after tomorrow. Another important mechanism and uh of of joint cooperation and one more example of our strategic relationship between our two countries.

[00:05:43]uh because that that the quad is a form of alignment between four countries who are not just strategically aligned on a bunch of key issues but four countries that have the ability to varying degrees to influence global events on these topics of of mutual interest. So there's a lot of details and things we can talk about. I didn't mention energy, but we also are strategically aligned on energy. You know, energy is and the ability to generate power is the key behind all of the great industries out there. you whether it's data centers, whether it's artificial intelligence, whether it's the ability to modernize and continue to advance economically, all of it begins and ends with the ability to generate the power necessary not just to raise standards of living, but beyond that to expand into new industries. And both of our countries are strategically aligned and ensuring that we have a world that can not just produce, but deliver the energy resources that are necessary to power a modern economy. So um I'm not given the breadth and scope of areas of alignment.

[00:06:46]One visit alone will never solve or or be able to address all of these. But this continuing dialogue and engagement between our countries uh is important uh because as I said I think it's not just evidence of the importance of our strategic alliance but it's necessary in order to continue to advance on all of these topics. So thank you for your warm welcome. Thank you all for covering these events here today and and uh I look forward to returning many times.

[00:07:10]You know, four days for a country of this size, of this uh beauty, and of of this diversity and all the things you have to show us. Uh we can't possibly see it all in four days, but we're going to try or we're going to die trying because uh it's it's a pretty packed schedule and and I appreciate all everything you facilitated for us in our time here together. Thank you.

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