Description: New Delhi, April 11, 2025 (ANI): “3 big negotiations…” EAM S Jaishankar hinted at India’s 'big deals' with USA, EU & UK.
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00:00I would argue that, you know, we have today an opportunity to actually take the current situation.
00:07If we can focus on these three big negotiations we have underway with the United States, with the EU and with UK.
00:15If these really work out for us, let us say some in this year, we would be in a very different position.
00:22All three have a very high tech content.
00:24Perhaps I could just start with the two Ts.
00:26In this world of two Ts, in between the Ts and beyond the Ts, and given the theme of the summit, what do you see as the opportunity for India?
00:39You have often argued that in times of disruption there is opportunity.
00:43So where is the opportunity for India today?
00:46In which tea?
00:48In either?
00:48Let us start with tech.
00:50We will come to the other one.
00:51You know, I think there are opportunities conceptually of different kinds.
01:00One, that we are actually seeing leapfrogging possibilities.
01:06I mean, if we are going to follow a path which was linear and extrapolative in a way, I think that has its own limitations with which we would have always struggled.
01:20Because we would have come at it perhaps not within required efficiency to get the benefits of it.
01:27So when you have now new pathways, some of which are still not invented, I think there are great possibilities here in terms of, you know, growth of new sectors, of really creating value.
01:46And also bring, the other part of it is bringing our strengths to bear.
01:50Because at the end of the day, if a world is much more talent-centric and much more data-centric, I think that clearly is something which holds Sambhavana for India.
02:04Now, again, it is not a given.
02:07You know, because, you know, often when we get into these discussions, it is like, you know, that is a slam dunk.
02:14That is surely going to happen.
02:16Nothing in life is surely going to happen.
02:18I mean, these are options.
02:19We will have to still make, you know, have the right policies.
02:23In many ways, make up for deficiencies of the past and try to really address it.
02:32In terms of the other team, I, again, to my view, to my mind, you know, what it has done is it has focused our own minds on the need for actually correcting what I would call a certain skewed nature of our openness to the global economy.
02:57You know, many of us have argued for a long time that our more complementary partners are actually in the West.
03:06I mean, these are areas, these are economies where real growth is possible.
03:11These are much more open.
03:13They are market economies.
03:15There is a certain contractual underpinning to everything you do.
03:18There is a – these are truly – I mean, not entirely, but much more competitive, certainly, than the economies to the east of us.
03:28So, I would argue that, you know, we have today an opportunity to actually take the current situation, and if we can focus on these three big negotiations we have underway with the United States, with the EU, and with UK,
03:45I would say we could – if these really work out for us, let us say some in this year, we would be in a very different position.
03:55And I would, again, make the point all three have a very high-tech content.