The Biden administration will place high priority on strengthening the Indo-US relationship by pushing India to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council, continuing co-operation on terrorism, climate change, health and trade, according to a policy paper released by the Biden campaign during the presidential election.
Biden, 77, defeated incumbent President Donald Trump in the bitterly-fought presidential election that attracted a record number of Americans to cast their votes.
By becoming the US president, Biden has an opportunity of fulfilling his 14-year-old dream to strengthen the India-US ties that he wants to achieve in 2020.
"My dream is that in 2020, the two closest nations in the world will be India and the United States. If that occurs, the world will be safer," Biden had told the now closed down India Abroad newspaper in an interview in December 2006.
While it would be tough for him to realise this in 2020, he can definitely achieve it during his presidency starting on January 20, 2021.
A policy paper released by the Biden Campaign during the closely-fought election gave an inkling of how he wants to accomplish it.
Topping the list is pushing India to became a permanent member of the UN Security Council, continued co-operation on terrorism, strengthening ties on issues like climate change and health working towards a multi-fold increase in bilateral trade.
Biden played a lead role, both as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as Vice President in the Barack Obama administration, in systematically deepening strategic engagement, people-to-people ties, and collaboration with India on global challenges, the policy paper said.
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