“My hope is that we'll resolve this dispute. I believe India has made a fairly highly effective providing frankly,” he mentioned the ET World Leaders Discussion board, whereas referring to reviews of India providing zero tariff on various US imports as a “large shift.”
Kerry, the 68th secretary of state beneath former President Barack Obama, was additionally the 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate.
Throughout an interplay titled ‘America, India, and the Shifting World Order' with ET's Sruthijith KK, Kerry mentioned giving ultimatums with none real diplomatic efforts would not exhibit greatness. “We're involved. This battle between President Trump and PM Modi is unlucky. Nice nations do not essentially exhibit greatness by giving folks ultimatums on a regular basis with out form of a real diplomatic effort to attempt to discover frequent floor and do issues by means of the traditional course of enterprise.”
He additionally highlighted the function of Indians globally and Indian People particularly within the US financial system. “In america, actually you see Indian-American management at FedEx, Google and Microsoft, and it is extraordinary the enter that India is having in our nation itself.”
“We have to… recognise and honour the affect of Indians within the US. I ponder whether we actually recognize on this nation what a unprecedented second it's, and after we would possibly ever have this type of scenario the place so lots of the prime international tech companies are led by Indian origin executives.”
Kerry hailed India's bold renewable power objectives and mentioned nuclear energy have to be a part of the answer. He was additionally of the view that discuss of US decline is “drastically exaggerated,” quoting the Mark Twain witticism.
“Each nation has issues, they usually differ nation to nation, whether or not social, cultural or bodily in a method or one other, lack of infrastructure, no matter it's, alternative, training.”
“However the world has been shifting. In case you take a look at the massive image, regardless of these challenges, the world has been shifting very quickly in the direction of a change… we're simply exploring in a complete new means, new alternatives. And that excites me, and the US is main in so many components of that, publicly, the non-public sector,” he mentioned.
He additionally addressed the notion of US exceptionalism. “After I ran for president, I keep in mind saying in my acceptance speech… we're not distinctive as a result of we run round beating our chest and telling all people we're distinctive,” he mentioned. “We're distinctive after we do distinctive issues, like placing $30 billion into AIDS efforts in Africa, or after we are the primary on the bottom to assist with an emergency the place one thing horrible occurred.”
On the Russia-Ukraine difficulty, he mentioned he's assured of a path to finish the battle. “I'm optimistic that it may be carried out. I'm glad President Trump is making an attempt. I'm glad that he is centered on it. I believe that is very, essential for no matter causes they might be.”
Kerry additionally spoke on the worsening humanitarian disaster in Gaza. At the same time as he referred to Palestinian armed outfit Hamas' October 7 assault on Israel as “grotesque,” he felt that the present Tel Aviv authorities doesn't imagine in a two-state answer, which posed a “large drawback for the world.”
