China will have a vacation! Plan ready to take U.S.-India science relations to the next level… read it all

Washington. In June 2008, amid the strangeness of nuclear cooperation and the US-India strategic alliance, a Washington DC district court convicted Parthasarathy Sudarshan, CEO of an electronics company with offices in North Carolina South, Singapore and Bengaluru, to 35 months in prison. . Parthasarathy was accused of conspiring to illegally export 500 i960 microprocessors to aid in the development of Indian ballistic missiles, space launchers and fighter jets, including the Tejas.

According to a report by TOI, i960 chips were so cheap that they could be bought at any store. This incident happened as China was ridiculed for its equality with America. He easily circumvented US export restrictions. And America was calm in the midst of it all. But now it seems that Washington has finally woken up to the Chinese threat and its misplaced mistrust of India that has endured for generations.

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In an unprecedented engagement, senior Indian and US officials are meeting this week to advance the US-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET). It aims to overcome mutual inhibitions and develop an ecosystem based on mutual trust. Following the decision by US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2022, a delegation of senior Indian strategic and scientific leaders are meeting their US counterparts in Washington today to take ties to the next level.

The composition of the Indian delegation itself gives an indication of what is to come. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval leads this delegation. In this, ISRO President S. Somnath, Senior Scientific Advisor to Prime Minister Ajay Kumar Sood. Along with this, G Satheesh Reddy, Scientific Advisor to Defense Minister KK Rajaram and Director General of Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Sameer Kamat are also involved in this case.

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In support of ICET, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted a roundtable on Monday with industry leaders across the spectrum of advanced technologies, including semiconductor design and manufacturing. , commercial electronics, advanced telecommunications, commercial space, aerospace and defense, and information technology services.

The US India Business Council, which hosted the roundtable, said that in the presence of US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, officials discussed opportunities to promote the development of technologies critical and emerging such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence. One of the main topics of the roundtable was how the two governments would facilitate deeper collaboration on technology issues, including strengthening the semiconductor supply chain.

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