Jaishankar welcomes Blinken at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India on July 28, 2021. - AP
NEW DELHI (Bloomberg): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken kicked off his first official visit to India Wednesday (July 28), warning of "rising global threats to democracy” as the two nations sought common ground in their disputes with China.
Blinken met his counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and is slated to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi later in the day.
India’s border tensions with China, the growing security crisis in Afghanistan triggered by the impending final US troop withdrawal and Covid-19 are likely to be high on the agenda.
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