ASHTON CARTER

India, Ashton Carter said, is an example of how the strategic benefits of the principled, inclusive network can overcome hesitation.

The two sides also discussed at length India’s designation as a major defence partner of the US, with Delhi having easier access to technology.

Ahead of his visit, informed sources said India has made maritime security a significant priority and in discussion with the US for sale of Predator drones from General Atomics.

We have a great number of projects. I was in New Delhi not long ago and discussing all these, and there are many of them -- so too many to enumerate.

Known as a friend of India and strong believer in a robust India-US defence relationship, Carter is the only American defence secretary to have so many trips to India.

Carter "spearheaded efforts to deepen and broaden" defence cooperation with India, the Pentagon said in a fact-sheet released yesterday, as Carter concluded his final trip to India.

Through Indo-US strategic handshake - with US reaching west ...and India reaching east in what PM Modi calls his Act East policy - both nations are exercising together by air, land, and sea like never before, he said.

"The landscape of nuclear weapons have changed in the last 25 years," US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said yesterday in his remarks on "Sustaining Nuclear Deterrence".

The defence relationship between India and the US has emerged as that of a "strategic handshake", Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said.

Manohar Parrikar today held talks with American counterpart Ashton Carter at the Pentagon on ways to deepen bilateral long-term strategic partnership.

India and US already have “a robust military connect” established over the last 15 years during the Bush and Obama administrations.

The NDAA-2018 asks the Secretary of State and the Defence Secretary to come out with a common definition that recognises India's status as a "Major Defence Partner".

In 2016, then Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter had declined to certify that Pakistan met the certification requirement, resulting in the loss of $ 300 mn fund for it.

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Passed by the Senate by 92 to 7 votes, US Congress imposes four conditions on Pakistan to be eligible for $400 million of the $900 million aid.

The Pentagon yesterday said Carter will host an enhanced honour cordon to welcome Parrikar to the US Defence Department headquarters.

The top Chinese military official asked the US to keep its security pledges, withdraw troops from Afghanistan as soon as possible, stop arms sale to China's Taiwan.

Carter's remarks "laid bare the stereotypical US thinking and US hegemony," Hua said at a daily news briefing.

Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said that the US-China ties will be "complex" as there remain areas of concern including in the disputed South China Sea.