Rep. Dunn: It is not just the U.S., but NATO “also realizes that India is dramatically important to the whole world… in countering China”
Terming the Chinese Communist Party as the single-biggest strategic and economic threat to the United States, two influential members of U.S. Congress described New Delhi as Washington’s best ally in countering Beijing.
Representatives Mike Waltz and Neal Dunn, both Florida Republicans were speaking at a congressional reception hosted by the Asian American Hotel Owners’ Association (AAHOA), as part of its national spring advocacy conference, in Washington, DC, March 7, 2023
Waltz, the Republican co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans in the 118thCongress, said he chose to serve in that position because of his firm belief that the
“US-India relationship is the most important relationship for the United States in the 21st century,” and “diplomatically, informationally, militarily, economically, the US-India relationship is the relationship for the 21st century.”
The congressman, who serves as the chairman of the House Armed Services panel’s Readiness Committee, pointed out that the Chinese navy is now larger than the US Navy, its space forces bigger than “the rest of the world combined, including the United States,” and “they now have more nuclear missiles, ICBM tubes, than we do.”
“I don’t know that we have ever faced an adversary like the Chinese Communist Party, like we face today, that could rival us economically,” said Waltz, a former Green Beret who is also a colonel in the U.S. Army National…
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