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U.S. President Donald Trump wants to beryllium the President of peace, particularly since the planetary strategy hasn’t been capable to execute that, said Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau astatine the Raisina Dialogue underway successful New Delhi connected Thursday (March 5, 2026)
Speaking astatine a curtain-raiser league of the Raisina Dialogues titled “Power, Purpose, & Partnerships: American Foreign Policy successful a New Era”, Mr. Landau said, “It is an indictment of the overseas argumentation constitution that we haven’t recovered solutions to the conflicts.”
For the American government, Mr. Landau said, the intent of overseas argumentation of United States was to beforehand the country’s nationalist interests. “We are not a foundation organisation. We are not United Nations… However, America archetypal does not mean America alone. Just arsenic President Trump wants to marque America large again, helium volition expect that the PM of India and different countries privation to marque their countries great,” helium explained.
In this representation posted connected March 4, 2026, (from right) United States Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor and U.S. Space Force's General Whiting (left) during a sojourn astatine the Akshardham temple, successful New Delhi. Photo: X/@DelhiAkshardham via PTI
Mr. Landau, who is starring the U.S. delegation, said the period volition spot emergence of India. “It is successful our interest, and we deliberation it’s besides India’s involvement to beryllium partnered with us,” helium said, adding that helium was excited astir the India-U.S. commercialized deal, “which is astir astatine the finishing enactment now”.
However, Mr. Landau had a informing for India: the U.S. volition not marque the aforesaid mistakes it did with China, “where we fto you make each these markets and past fto you bushed america with them”.
In effect to a question astir the ongoing struggle successful the Persian Gulf War, Mr. Landau said that the endgame is an Iran that is not a menace to others, 1 successful which Iran does not person entree to a atomic weapon.
‘U.S. an alternate root for lipid imports’
When asked if U.S. would let India to bargain Russian lipid present that Gulf lipid is constrained, Mr. Landau pitched the United States arsenic an alternate root for lipid imports. “I anticipation India is reasoning of alternate sources, and I can’t deliberation of a amended alternate root than the United States of America, we are a vigor affluent country.”
Noting that the U.S. is consenting to cooperate connected energy, Mr. Landau added, “Obviously, you know, there’s agelong word and abbreviated word issues here, and we volition enactment with you to marque definite that your vigor needs are met successful in the abbreviated word arsenic good arsenic the agelong term.”
The Ministry of External Affairs and Observer Research Foundation (ORF) jointly hosts Raisina Dialogue, the flagship multilateral league connected geopolitics and geo-economics since 2016.
