Sen. Mark Warner on U.S.-India ties: One of the most critical U.S. relationships this century

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[garyfoster]

As an American, every Indian person I have met here in the US has been the most humble and kind types of people I have ever met and I hope India and US relations continue to grow as allies.

[riktimchowdhury]

Americans should stop lecturing Indians about elections in India. Next time India should send election observers to monitor US elections

[njain]

Its time the West climbed down from their high horse and stopped lecturing India on the freedom of minorities etc. Minorities (Muslims) in India have better lives in India than Blacks in US or had they gone to Pakistan at the time of partition. India is not perfect, we have issues to work on but Western media, especially the Left-leaning cabal, which also includes elites who used to rule India earlier tend to blow up the issues in India. E.g. The cabal keeps harping on the unfortunate riots which happened in Gujarat under Mr. Modi's leadership 22 yrs ago. India's then ruling party, the Congress party (which happens to be the darling of the Cabal) tried to pin the blame on Mr. Modi but failed for many years. Even India's Supreme Court absolved him. But people still keep blaming him, without ever mentioning that the riots were in retaliation to a group of Muslim gents torching down train killing 58 Hindu pilgrims. Yes, there are still stray incidents of communal tensions and crimes BUT does Mr. Biden get blamed for police brutality against Blacks? Why not? Different standards? India is a complex nation and we welcome US's friendship, but we will never be anyone's lapdog.

[aw]

I liked the way Sen. Warner showed the mirror to the anchor about India's human rights concern. Minorities in India enjoy same if not more amount of freedom & privilege. Just like black people in US.

[bharat]

India has EVM voting machines they are 100% stable and reliable system. Mzlm community of India benefits from all the secular laws we have in constitution but they work against India and commit religious crimes. Waqf law enables them to claim anyone's land as mzlm property and the person cant even go to court, Indian Waqf(mzlm) Board owns 3rd largest land area in India after Army and Railway. India is the only country which was subdued by minority population for 1000 yrs and yet claim they are under threat. Modi has transformed India while previous rulers kept Indians poor so their one ruling family can control the population. We have became stronger more free and embrace our ancient culture, it's helping our economy and people.

[protograde]

USA then: We condemn India.
Now: Let's grow together.
Tomorrow: We condemn India.

[PWF]

Beyond transactional nature of the relationship, Indians love USA for its kind hearted People and a beautiful system they have built for themselves!!!

[gvgandhi]

Finally about question on democracy, great to see some honest reply...because Mark got frank reply from Indians....India is an extremely unique state languages....at least 5k year old civilization....home to world second largest Muslim population. world all major religion practice relatively

About 500 year of foreign occupation with 200 of colonialism ....

India is a strong democracy and people like it that debate, we oppose....we remove politician...it's not advanced everyone is not rich, everyone isn't educated...It will happen.

But one thing India's knows

[muralikrishnan]

Think it's a win win for both the US & India. Let's do business & strengthen cooperation in all fields possible. All love 🇺🇸 ❤ 🇮🇳

[Jormungandr]

Senator sounds a positive minded refreshing individual. May lord bless him in his career. India has had 1000 years of shame, India's glorious universities were destroyed by Islamic turks. Nalanda University in Bihar was burned for 3 months by Bakthiyar Khilji, so much ancient knowledge was lost. China's Kung fu was founded by Indian prince Bodhi.

United States is the epicenter of science and business and India has World 's youth factory.

Together, the future will be union of good times.

[logicalthinker-vl]

This is the kind of unbiased answers i love. Yes there are problems but they will get solved as soon as Indian youth get jobs and everyone will be busy in their own life

[JhabruTiger]

Most US / Western analysts presumably mean well when they talk about the human rights of minorities in India but are genuinely naive in their understanding of the ground realities. The friction points of majority vs minority issues in India can best be appreciated with the following scenarios / Qs being posed in the context of the US.

1. Will Uncle Sam allow schools that teach hatred of the USA & brainwash students to sabotage the USA from within? Several Madrasas in India do that.
2. Will the US nationalize operations of & donations to Churches, yet give freedom of operations to Jewish & Hindu Temples, Muslim mosques, etc., offer salaries to the employees of such minority institutions but NOT to the employees of Churches, and distribute some of the donations to the Churches to mosques & temples (but not the other way around? This happens in many states in India.
3. Will the US laws allow different civil laws for minorities depending on their religion? E.g. will a US Muslim be allowed not to have to pay alimony because his religion says so? Will US civil laws allow a Muslim to have up to 4 wives because his religion allows it? OR should the civil laws be the same for all US citizens & permanent residents irrespective of their religion? Happens in India.
4. Will the US Govt pay for minorities to visit religious shrines in other countries but not do the same for its own majority population? This happens in India for Muslims going for the Haaj to Saudi Arabia - even most Muslim nations do not do this.
5. Will the US allow only minorities (non-Christian) to run religion-based schools but prohibit the majority (Christians) from running academic institutions? This too happens in India.
6. Will the USA allow descendants of Western Europe to teach their own version of history claiming that they once ruled the US, that it is their right to rule the US again, that they owe allegiance to past European rulers and not to the current democratic America? Many Muslims in India do so even if they are not even descendants of the foreign invaders. In fact, behind most Muslims of India are the forced conversions, killings of their forefathers, and rapes of their ancestor women but Madrasas teach them false history.
7. Does the US not have different pathways & timelines for immigrants with different backgrounds (refugees/asylum seekers, highly educated, laborers, relatives of citizens, etc.)? If Christians were a minority in Mexico & Canada and abused/harassed because of their religion, would the US not give them an accelerated pathway toward immigration & citizenship?

Why should the answers/remedies of India to similar issues be different from those of the USA? Both are democratic & secular countries.

Thinking that India needs different solutions to these Qs than the US is the real issue here that most well-meaning yet naive analysts do not understand.

Insisting that India has communal issues because the US & the West does not understand real issues & their nuances is downright arrogant, delusional & condescending.

Narendra Modi is only as much a Hindu Nationalist leader as, say Donald Trump or Joe Biden are Christian Nationalist leaders of the US.

If & when the Muslim population exceeds 10-20% in the US, Uncle Sam will be dealing with the same issues that India is dealing with for decades. So, US & western media, in general, need to wake up & stop sounding like broken records of "copy-paste" journalism. Instead, learn from India's experiences & empathize.

[MuhammadWaqar]

Challenges = Democracy,
No Challenges = Monarch, Autocracy, Dictatorship, ,

[education-explore]

6:03 As an indian, i can say truly warner said as a totally neutral point of view that there are up and down in both the countries but in order to form most optimum capable partnership this to nation must remove this small obstacles in order to achive there common interest output at optimum possible level .🇮🇳🇺🇸❤what a startagic minded opinion he share to anchor.salute to its personality this types of people make us-india a goods freinds in best ways in all feilds.👍

[shreeveda]

Modi is the best Indian PM ever. India's ancient civilizational values that guide India today, are based on respect for all creation, trust, truth, tolerance, pluralism, free thinking, equality of all creation, spiritualism, etc... Sadly, many from 2 particular faiths are just the opposite: less tolerant, fundamentalists, hell bent on conversion and hate for all values Indian. They are ganging up, with anti-India forces (within India and outside) that are jealous, to defame India. They will fail.

[srinip]

I personally think Modi is doing the right thing. If you think about it, a demographic dividend is a double edged sword that can go south very quickly if the right conditions are not created. A large youthful contingent of unemployed and frustrated people is a recipe for high crime and social unrest. Modi obviously recognizes that and is moving forward at full speed to create those positive conditions - education, jobs and, yes, even health care. As he mentioned in his address to Congress, can you imagine providing free health care to 500 million people? For a developing country? You call that a human rights violation? Housing for 500 million people - you call that a human rights violation?

When was the last time we provided free housing for homeless people right here in the good ole US of A? We have a fraction of the number that India has. Do you really think they love loving in the underpasses of LA?

I think this is one of the shrewdest moves that America can make.

[William]

It is critical and your arrogant bullying isn't helping. You already lost Saudi Arabia.

[gvgandhi]

India is very different from China is some ways....India would like to export, but its a great consumer as well. India culturally is very rooted, very proud and would not like to be seen as pure play provider for the world

[lawrencesullivan]

Any attempt to change Chinese politics from the outside is doomed.

[abhisekhkumar]

Press freedom: We have people spweing hatred day and night here. Try speaking the same for few other oppositions like TMC here is west bengal, I am from WB. You will vanish.
Minorities rights? What else do they want? They enjoy more rights than General category people. Real Minorities are buddhists and Sikhs and zorastrians, they all live peacefully. Some Minorities are just intolerant and are hindu hating.
Elections? Yes, we have issues with elections, but from the opposition's side, they capture the voting booths.