Trump has continued with Obama’s India policy: Congressman

Washington, August 10 : President Donald Trump has continued with the India policy of his predecessor Barack Obama and the support for the Indo-US relationship transcends political parties here, an influential Indian-American lawmaker has said.
“I think that his India policy so far has been somewhat of a continuation of what President Barack Obama did and, before President Obama, what President Bush had done,” Democratic Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, a vocal critic of the foreign policy of Trump, said.
Noting that the continuity shown by Trump on the Indo-US relationship was a good thing, he said the current US administration sees India as an important counterweight to the influence of China in the region. Krishnamoorthi, who just returned from a short trip to India during which he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said, “I think that whatever we can do in the US Congress and here in America to basically, as I said, make sure that Asia remains a stable and economically prosperous place. We have to do that.””US-India relationship is a special partnership, so we have to do everything we can to enhance this partnership and to make sure that the great progress that we’ve already seen continues and that it remains mutually beneficial to both countries. I personally believe that it will continue to do so,” he told PTI.