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Allison Hooker, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs is connected a five-day sojourn to India from Sunday (December 7, 2025) to beforehand bilateral strategical and economical ties.
Ms. Hooker’s travel to New Delhi and Bengaluru comes amid expanding strain successful ties betwixt the 2 countries aft Washington slapped a whopping 50% tariff connected Indian goods, including 25% levies for India’s procurement of Russian crude oil.
The U.S. embassy said Under Secretary Hooker’s sojourn marks different measurement guardant successful advancing President Donald Trump’s priorities for a beardown U.S.-India concern and a escaped and unfastened Indo-Pacific.
Ms. Hooker’s December 7-11 sojourn is aimed astatine advancing the U.S.-India strategical partnership, deepening economical and commercialized ties including expanding American exports, and fostering collaboration successful emerging technologies including artificial quality and abstraction exploration, it said.
“While successful New Delhi, Under Secretary Ms. Hooker volition conscionable with elder Indian officials to sermon determination security, economical cooperation, and shared priorities successful the Indo-Pacific, including done the overseas bureau consultations with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri,” the embassy said.
In Bengaluru, Ms. Hooker volition sojourn the Indian Space Research Organisation and conscionable leaders from India’s dynamic space, energy, and exertion sectors to beforehand innovation successful U.S.-India probe partnerships and to research opportunities for expanded cooperation, it added.
The sojourn by the authoritative besides comes 2 days aft Russian President Vladimir Putin paid an implicit 27-hour travel to New Delhi and held acme talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
