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Jaishankar said that the United States has fundamentally changed its approach to interact with the world, and added that the American-China commercial war will have consequences and that India needs to safeguard its own interests.
The Minister of External Affairs, S Jaishankar, addresses the Global Carnegie 2025 Technology Summit. (S JAISHANKAR/X)
After the radical tariffs of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, sent shock waves in the global markets and caused a commercial war with China, the Minister of External Affairs, S Jaishankar, said that India is in a high degree of emergency negotiations.
Speaking at the Carnegie Global Tech Summit 2025, Jaishankar said that India is anxious to sign the bilateral trade agreement with the United States as soon as possible, while doing the same with the European Union and the United Kingdom.
“Within a month of change in the administration, we have conceptuality and that we will make a bilateral commercial agreement; that we will find a solution that works for both or for us, we also have our concerns. And it is not an open process,” said the minister.
“If we look at the EU, or people say we have a leg negotiation for 23 years, which is not entirely true because we had great blocks of time when no one only talked to another person. But they have pledged to be very prolonged processes,” he added. “This time, we are certainly prepared for a high degree of urgency. I mean, we see a window here. Our commercial teams are really charged.”
His comments occurred after Trump announced a 90 -day break to his scan tariffs that alarmed the economies and caused fears of a global recession. However, Trump increased tariffs on Chinese products to 145% massive, while Beijing responded with retaliation rates or 125% in imports of US goods.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the United States in February to meet with Donald Trump, where they agreed to end the first part of a bilateral commercial agreement for this year. An American delegation led by the assistant representative of Brendan Lynch visited New Delhi in March to talk about the agreement.
Jaishankar in the American-China commercial war
Jaishankar said that USA has fundamentally changed its approach to interact with the world, which has consumption in each domain, partly the technological sector, since the United States is the greatest driver of global technological advances. Hello, he also talked about a connection between the Maga Campaign (Make America Again Again) of Trump and the technological domain.
Jaischar also highlighted China’s advances. “The changes in the United States, that everyone is so familiar, if not me, I think it is a great change in the last year. But there is the other change, and that is an evolution, it can be said … that is China’s advance.”
“Commercial history is also the history of technology. It had its dramatic moments, Deep Seek was one of them. He would argue that the changes driven by China are as consistent as changes in the US position. In fact, one is in flow,” he will submit.
Hey also said that countries like Japan and South Korea have tried to do a geopolitical return through technology, while India was progressing in the field of digital public infrastructure and prioritized semiconductors.
‘Nothing is pure business’
The Minister of External Affairs also warned of a period of acute competence, adding that the impact of relations between the United States and China on India was similar to a “problem of Goldilocks”, without any situation working in favor of New Delhi.
Speaking about the Tit-For-Ot movements, Jaishankar said: “I think what our definition of what is sensitive has expanded. Nothing is trade.
Hey also said that Europe had the good fortune to enjoy strategic comfort for several decades, but now the feathers are being revolted from the Ukraine War and Trump’s rates, and is being forced by global developments to conceptual is its own.
(With agencies inputs)
