US Ambassador: United States-India Relationship Is ‘Multiplicative’ Not ‘Additive’

Eric Garcetti, the US Ambassador to India, underlined the relationship with India on Tuesday, saying it was not based on convenience or calculation, adding that the links were multiplicative.

“There is a great awakening happening between India and the United States. This is not an additive relationship—India plus the United States. It is a multiplicative relationship. When India and the US come together, it’s India times the US”, Garcetti remarked on Tuesday at the USC-India Innovation Summit.

He stated that the cornerstone of bilateral relations is based on the four Ps: peace, prosperity, planet, and people.

He went on to say, “Whether it was our dual diplomacy in G20, whether it’s the work that we’re doing in the health sphere, whether it’s the way that we can look at trying to build peace into the world. The four P’s, as I call them, which is the cornerstone of our vision here as America in India through the mission here of peace, prosperity, planet and people”.

Garcetti stated that he accepted the ambassador job because US President Joe Biden told him that India was the most important country for him.

“There is a great awakening happening between the United States and India. When the president urged me to consider this position, he stated it was the most important country in the world to me right now. He truly believes that. And I agree; else, I would not have taken this job”, Garcetti noted.

“The US and India are on the same page, collaborating, the two largest democracies in the world, with proud histories, who know increasingly that our relationship hasn’t been based on convenience or calculation. It has been based on deep and lasting friendship, probably best embodied by the relationship that USC has with India and Indians”, Garcetti continued.

Eric Garcetti emphasized that the United States and India, as the world’s two greatest democracies, can demonstrate what it means to be moral leaders at a critical juncture.

“Democracies and dictatorships coexist in the world. The United States and India, as the world’s two greatest democracies, can show the world what it means to be moral leaders at a time when we need it”, Garcetti said at the USC-India Innovation Summit on Tuesday.

The US Ambassador also stated that this was the best year in India-US history.

“This was the best year in US-India history, and it is not a new peak; I would say it is the new foundation…”, Garcetti added.

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