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00:00Sergio left his phone. Should I read what's on it or?
00:03You want to leave it here? All right.
00:06Well, thank you. It's a great honor to be back with all of you here today.
00:09And I say be back because I was just here three or four months ago.
00:12And it's interesting, when I was here three or four months ago,
00:14Sergio threw a big 250 party in Delhi.
00:18And now we're here another 250 party in Mumbai.
00:24And I'm starting to think all our embassy does here is throw parties.
00:31But we'll see what they come up with next year.
00:33You can't celebrate 251 the same way.
00:35It's just not the same ring to it.
00:37But it is an honor to be back.
00:39And I'm glad to be back.
00:40I said earlier today we had this press conference.
00:44We had members of the media there, obviously.
00:47And they were asking, somebody asked the question,
00:48why are you back in India after just four months?
00:52And I said, well, number one, it happens to be the most populous nation on earth.
00:56It happens to be the oldest democracy on earth.
00:58It happens to be such a strong geopolitical partner of the United States.
01:01But here's where I ended by saying is I actually think we don't come enough.
01:05I actually think we don't come enough.
01:09And it's not just for the parties.
01:12Because if you think about the story and the history of the 21st century,
01:16it's being written in this region and it's being written right now.
01:19One day someone will write a book about the history of the 21st century.
01:23And there will be a chapter in there about the other regions in the world.
01:26But the 21st century will be defined for better and for worse by what happens in this region.
01:32We know that.
01:33We can sense it.
01:34We can feel it.
01:35And I just spoke to our team over at the consulate a few, about an hour ago.
01:39And I told them that.
01:40I said, sometimes when you're living through history,
01:41you don't even realize you're living through history.
01:45Because it's moving so fast and it's happening so profoundly
01:48that sometimes you don't stop and realize the moment that you're in.
01:51I truly believe the relationship between the United States and India
01:54is defining in many ways, in a positive way,
01:57what the 21st century can look like.
02:03Now, just to prove to you that those are not idle words.
02:07Because these are nice things to say in every country you go to, right?
02:10But just to prove that those are not idle words.
02:12And I see that our colleagues from Washington, from the Congress are here.
02:16They know these issues that are being debated.
02:18And I'm also very grateful they have a very strong congressional delegation here,
02:22a bipartisan congressional delegation.
02:24Number one, I'm glad they're here because they passed the budgets to fund all our agencies.
02:28So don't go back and say that all we do is throw parties, guys.
02:34But the second is because they perceive it in Congress as well.
02:39Think about the issues that today are dominating the world.
02:42Number one, everyone recognizes that we are living through a moment of extraordinary technological innovation.
02:49Unlike anything man has ever seen.
02:51We've seen technological advances in human history in the past.
02:54We've seen what it does.
02:55It's disruptive, positive, and negative.
02:58Industrialization was an incredible advance.
03:00It pulled millions of people out of poverty.
03:02It allowed countries to advance.
03:03It had a positive impact.
03:05It had some downsides to it, too.
03:07And we spent decades dealing with it.
03:10Automation and the information age also had a dramatic implication.
03:15Think about how we live life today compared to 20, 30, 40 years ago.
03:19The immediate and instant access to information.
03:22Immediate and instant access to each other and to people.
03:24This was revolutionary.
03:25It had positives and it had negatives to it as well.
03:28But what we are living through now, in the age of superintelligence, in the age of quantum computing,
03:34is moving faster than any technological advance in all of human history.
03:39And at its best, technological advancement allows us to do as human beings is it allows us to do human
03:44things better.
03:46And so the challenge we face is how do we harness the power of superintelligence?
03:50How do we harness the power of all of these things in a way that is beneficial?
03:55Understanding that there will be downsides to it.
03:57We have to mitigate the downsides.
03:58But we must dominate and accentuate the positive aspects of it.
04:03I say this to you because on that issue, the United States and India is aligned.
04:09Perfectly aligned.
04:10We view it the same way.
04:12We have the same expertise.
04:13We have the same talented people working on it, from engineers to creative thinkers and innovators.
04:19We are aligned and we want to see a world in which superintelligence is used to the betterment of man
04:25and one in which the harms that it could cause are mitigated.
04:29If you look at geopolitics, no matter what you make, no matter what you innovate,
04:34it has to get from you to the places you're sending it to unless you only want to sell to
04:39your own economy.
04:39That requires free and unfettered ability to trade.
04:46That requires open sea lanes, as an example.
04:49And in particular for the United States and India, a free and secure Indo-Pacific.
04:59One in which no nation can claim dominance or ownership of international shipping lanes.
05:04On that issue, we are 100% and perfectly aligned.
05:08I could go on and on, but the point is, of course, no two nations on Earth will ever be
05:14perfectly aligned on every issue.
05:16And of course, there will be times and points of disagreement.
05:18But on the core issues that matter, the core issues that define the national interest of both India and the
05:24United States,
05:25the alignment between our countries is extraordinary, especially for two countries of this size,
05:32especially for two countries of this magnitude.
05:34Because we can be aligned and not smaller countries don't matter.
05:36Of course they do.
05:38But when you're talking about a country that's approximating 1.5 billion people
05:44and the largest economy in the world in the United States,
05:48when two powers like that can be aligned on these issues that are going to define the 21st century,
05:53then we have an opportunity together to write those pages in the history of the 21st century.
05:59And so while today we celebrate here the 250th birthday of the United States for the 18th time here in
06:05India,
06:07but only, I'm kidding, they've only done it 12, but it's a year-long celebration.
06:17But while we're here to commemorate and understand that,
06:21we also understand that what we are focused on collectively
06:24is not just to be proud of what America has achieved over 250 years,
06:29but we're also here to celebrate what together we can achieve for the next 250 years.
06:35The truth of the matter is that we are making decisions now in geopolitics and economics and trade and in
06:40commerce
06:41that will impact people that have not even been born,
06:44that will define the world in ways we cannot even fully comprehend or appreciate.
06:48And what I'm excited about, what I challenge our team to be excited about at the Department of State,
06:53what I just challenged our team at the consulate here in Mumbai to be excited about,
06:57is be excited about the fact that today you are assigned to a place and you are working in a
07:02place
07:04where the United States is in partnership with another powerful, influential, and advanced country,
07:10are helping to write the story of the 21st century in a way that betters the values that we share
07:16in common,
07:17values rooted in the dignity of the individual, values rooted in democratic principles,
07:22values rooted in the rule of law, and values always rooted in the belief that our job,
07:28for those who serve in public office, is to lead the next generation better off than ourselves.
07:33And to me, this is the best way to celebrate 250 years of the American miracle,
07:38is to find partners from around the world where together and working together,
07:42together. We can take the things that made America exceptional as a nation
07:47and share it in partnership with friends like you.
07:51And so we are grateful for the opportunity to be here tonight and to be with all of you.
07:55I'll see you again in three months because I'm coming now every three months.
07:58So thank you very much.
08:00Thank you very much.