U.S.-Indian Space Cooperation To "Deepen"

At a joint press conference with President Obama today, Indian Prime Minister Singh announced that “We have decided to give a fresh impetus to collaboration in the fields of education, agriculture, and health. We will deepen our ongoing cooperation in frontier areas of science and technology, nuclear power, and space. This will open new opportunities for our universities and laboratories, and create human capital to meet the global needs of the future.”

The announcement follows on a pledge of increased U.S.-Chinese space cooperation when President Obama was in China last week. As news reports surrounding Prime Minister Singh’s visit to Washington indicate, the Indian-Chinese rivalry in that region of the world requires the United States to tread a fine line in its dealings with each of them.