The US is not sufficiently committing the resources it should contribute to the world, Secretary of State John Kerry said today as he cited Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the country wherein it could not even commit a USD 1 billion loan guarantee.

"American power needs to be projected thoughtfully and appropriately, but if we're not...I'll give you an example. Prime Minister Modi from India came here the other day," Kerry said in an interview to the Sixth Annual Washington Ideas Forum.

Modi, he said came to the US after his trip to Japan and the India visit of the Chinese President. "Both of whom gave him double-digit numbers of billions of dollars for infrastructure development. China, I think, did $30 billion; Japan did somewhere similar...but more," Kerry said.