No matter what the outcome of the U.S. presidential elections, the India-U.S. relationship as well as the engagement with the Quad will “only grow”, said External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Tuesday (November 5, 2024), as Americans began voting for the 47th U.S. President.
Briefing the media in Canberra about India-Australia bilateral talks, along with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Mr. Jaishankar slammed Canada over the violence outside an Indian consular camp at a Brampton Temple community centre over the weekend, as well as for giving space to “extremist voices”, while side-stepping a question about vandalism at Indian centres and temples in Australia. Speaking about the October 21 Line of Actual Control (LAC) agreement with China, Mr. Jaishankar called it a “positive development” and said both sides now plan to further build on ties with meetings between the National Security Advisers and the Foreign Ministers of both countries.
