Speaking at the Raisina Dialogue 2026 in New Delhi, US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said the 21st century will witness India’s rise. He emphasized that stronger ties between India and the United States are in the strategic interests of both nations, highlighting an upcoming trade deal nearing completion.
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00:00I thought I would talk a little bit about our foreign policy vision in the Trump administration generally
00:08and then pivot to the U.S.-India relationship specifically as an example of some of the points that I made
00:20in the more general presentation.
00:22You know, one of the things that President Trump has done, whether you like President Trump or do not like
00:31President Trump,
00:32is that he has empowered those of us in the U.S. government to think about some fundamental assumptions about
00:42foreign policy
00:43that honestly had not been subject to much debate or dialogue for many decades.
00:52If you think about it, the world that emerged after World War II had a very clear vision for American
01:07foreign policy.
01:08You know, around the world, whether you're talking about, you know, Malaysia or Montevideo, Uruguay or Malawi,
01:22we were seeking to contain the spread of communism and the Soviet Union.
01:28And that was the unifying principle in American foreign policy.
01:35India had obviously adopted a pretty clear position in that of trying to balance between East and West
01:45and really fomenting the non-aligned movement to try to avoid taking sides in that conflict.
01:54And then, of course, as we know, in the early 1990s, almost overnight, the Soviet Union vanished.
02:02And somewhat strangely, there was never an assessment at that point in time of the purposes of U.S. foreign
02:11policy
02:12in the post-Cold War world.
02:14The United States, you know, had this massive military and diplomatic footprint that it never had historically,
02:24again, all around the world.
02:26And instead of coming up with or really having an important national or international debate
02:33about what the purpose of U.S. foreign policy was post-Cold War,
02:41we just kind of let it all happen by default.
02:45There was never a moment of reckoning to say, what is the point of U.S. foreign policy now?
02:50Right?
02:51Ever since Pearl Harbor, really, when we got wound up for World War II
02:56and then went right into the Cold War, so from the early 1940s really through the early 1990s
03:01for a period of 50 years, you know, we had a very clear understanding of what we were doing around
03:09the world.
03:10In the last 35 years, really almost as long as the original 50 years,
03:17we really have not had any kind of vision about what we're doing in the world
03:23and what the point of U.S. foreign policy is.
03:26And President Trump, with his America First foreign policy,
03:31has made it very clear that our objectives are to make our country safer, stronger, and more prosperous.
03:43Now, that doesn't mean that we don't want to do things that also advance the interests of other countries,
03:50but it recognizes that we in the American government, the purpose of foreign policy,
03:56of United States foreign policy, is to advance our national interests.
04:01You know, we are not a charity organization.
04:06We are not the United Nations.
04:09And it is important, I think, the work of diplomacy is to find the win-win situations.
04:18We say this is one country's interest.
04:21Here's another country's interest.
04:23We have to find the area in which those two circles converge.
04:27And, you know, that, it seems to me, is a very important point that we have been, you know,
04:37lost in terms of what is even the basic objective of foreign policy in our country.
04:41And so we have made this very, very clear that this is the goal.
04:46And America First obviously does not mean America alone,
04:50because some of the ways that you can accomplish those objectives are through cooperation with other countries.
04:57So, you know, I think some people have kind of very superficially said,
05:03oh, well, this is an isolationist foreign policy.
05:05Not at all.
05:06Again, our country is not safer and stronger and more prosperous walling itself off from the world.
05:13But if we, insofar as we are engaging with the world, we have to be able to explain to our
05:18own people
05:19how we are making our country stronger again through those kinds of engagements.
05:25And, frankly, we expect other countries to be pursuing their interests.
05:30You know, so if, just as President Trump wants to make America great again,
05:35he would expect the Prime Minister of India or other leaders to want to make their countries great again.
05:40Though, you know, national sovereignty is ultimately the basis of the international system,
05:49although many people have, you know, declared the death of the Westphalian system for many years now,
05:55you know, we very much, we are organized as a nation state, we have a constitution,
06:00and we expect other nations to behave the same.
06:04You know, concurrently with the drift in the substantive objectives in American foreign policy,
06:10in the last several decades, our foreign policy had become increasingly bureaucratic
06:16and no longer subject to the desires of the President,
06:22who is, after all, the elected representative of our people
06:25and who has the control over foreign policy under Article II of our Constitution.
06:32We have seen that, basically, our whole foreign policy process was really more concerned with the process itself
06:44rather than the results it would yield.
06:46And so we had, for many years, you know, high-level dialogues and summits,
06:52and everybody would give themselves awards and say how great it was and congratulate each other
06:58without actually looking to how are we serving the interests of our people.
07:04Ultimately, we have to be able to go to our people and say this is what our foreign policy has
07:09achieved for you.
07:10This is how it makes your life better.
07:13And, frankly, this is not something that President Trump came up with on his own.
07:17This is what, frankly, goes back to the earliest days of our country.
07:21If you read what the founders of our country wrote about foreign policy,
07:26they talked primarily about the importance of commercial intercourse with other countries
07:31and how that was important to foment our own prosperity.
07:36You know, the United States has been blessed by geography with, you know,
07:41relatively few neighbors compared to many other countries,
07:47and we have less concerns about land invasions from our neighbors in other parts of the world.
07:55So, you know, we can really focus on economic diplomacy and commercial diplomacy
08:02as a key objective of our foreign policy.
08:05And President Trump has brought that back to the fore of U.S. foreign policy
08:09in, you know, a return to our first principles.
08:14And he personally has taken on a key leadership role in foreign policy,
08:23so it is not some anonymous desk in the State Department that is making the important decisions,
08:30but they're really coming out of the President and the White House
08:34and reflect the President's own political agenda rather than a, let's say,
08:41a deep state agenda that kind of remains the same regardless of who is in the White House.
08:47So, you know, I think that my thesis here is that over the last several decades,
08:56American foreign policy had kind of descended into a kind of a toxic,
09:05into a toxic brew of moralism and impotence when we felt that we would go around the world
09:16lecturing people about values, but then, frankly, when other countries would do things
09:26that were very much against our interests, we would just, you know, express concern
09:32or issue a strongly worded letter, and, you know, President Trump has made it clear
09:38that, you know, he wants to be the President of Peace.
09:43He has made it a real priority and a point of pride that he has gone out of his way
09:49to help resolve many conflicts around the world, frankly,
09:52because the international system that we inherited had not been up to the task.
09:58And so he is personally doing that.
10:03And I think a lot of this is just, you know, going back to, you know,
10:10very basic common sense of just what is the challenge and how do we get things done.
10:16And I think it is an indictment, in a sense, of the foreign policy establishment
10:24of the last several decades, that there's been a lot of talk about problems,
10:30but, frankly, not a lot of solutions.
10:33And we've kind of fallen into a trap of if a country does something we don't like,
10:37well, we'll issue sanctions and then everybody can feel virtuous about that
10:42without any real discussion as to whether the sanctions were appropriate
10:47and whether they were having their intended effect.
10:49So he has given us, in a sense, the freedom to reassess our relations with many countries
10:56and see, you know, how do we advance our interests in a way that also advances
11:03those countries' interests.
11:04So what does that mean with respect to a relationship like India?
11:09I think one of the things that is undeniable is that this century is going to be,
11:18in many ways, a century that we expect to see the rise of India.
11:24And we, it's in our interest, and we think it's also in India's interest,
11:29to be partner with India's interest.
11:31You know, this is a country of almost unlimited potential.
11:35It's now the world's most populous country.
11:38It has incredible economic, you know, human resources,
11:45other resources that make it one of the countries that's going to decide
11:49the future of this century.
11:51The United States very much wants to be part of that
11:53and think that we have many, many win-win situations with India.
11:58And so, you know, there's a reason that I am here today,
12:02which is I want to highlight the importance of India as we look around the world
12:09in the 21st century and see, you know, what are the relationships that we really want to cultivate.
12:17And again, I'm not here, you know, to do social work or charity.
12:22I'm here because it's in the interest of our country and we think it's in the interest of India
12:26to deepen our partnership.
12:31And it has to be obviously based on reciprocity and mutual respect.
12:35We are very excited about the trade deal that is almost at the finish line now
12:43and, you know, think that that can be the basis for really unlocking almost limitless potential.
12:54And so we are very much excited on focusing with India on these economic and commercial opportunities.
13:05And so, but again, India should understand that we're not going to make the same mistakes with India
13:10that we made with China 20 years ago in terms of saying,
13:13oh, you know, we're going to let you, you know, be able to develop all these markets
13:22and then, you know, the next thing we know, you know, you're beating us in a lot of commercial things.
13:28We're going to make sure that whatever we do, it's fair to our people
13:31because ultimately we have to be accountable to our own people
13:34just as the government of India has to be accountable to its people.
13:38So, again, I think on the commercial economic front, it's incredibly bright.
13:44I think, you know, at a more general political level,
13:49we have two leaders in our two countries who have forged a great relationship.
13:55I think they really think the same way about putting their country's interests first
13:59and it just seems very logical that we are going to be deepening our cooperation
14:05and it's very important that, you know, our two countries can build on this personal bond.
14:12I think in these next few years, we can really set the stage for decades of very close India-U
14:21.S. cooperation.
14:21I hope we can kind of move beyond the Cold War model where, you know, India, you know,
14:29feels compelled to kind of keep the United States at arm's length.
14:34I think we can, again, cooperate very, very forthrightly in areas where we are –
14:42we have very many common interests, which are many.
14:44I mean, you know, I will briefly just mention the security area.
14:49I think the United States and India have, you know, very co-extensive interests
14:57when it comes to preventing terrorism, when it comes to ensuring freedom of navigation
15:05on the high seas and elsewhere.
15:08And so I think that, you know, we are seeing some changes in the U.S.-India relationship,
15:14cooperation and defense in other areas that I think would have been impossible
15:20some years ago.
15:21And I hope that that's an area that we can continue to lean into.
15:26I think the energy cooperation possibilities, again, are limitless.
15:31So I think it is no accident that the President sent really one of his very closest advisors,
15:39Ambassador Gore, as ambassador here.
15:42The President really understands the value of this relationship
15:48and, again, I am here – I'm delighted to be here today to celebrate this relationship.
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