Of their first assembly since Trump’s return to the White Home, the 2 leaders emphasised the significance of stronger US-India educational collaboration.
“Recognising the significance of worldwide educational collaborations in fostering innovation, bettering studying outcomes and improvement of a future-ready workforce, each leaders resolved to strengthen collaborations between the upper schooling establishments by efforts reminiscent of joint/twin diploma and twinning applications, establishing joint facilities of excellence, and organising of offshore campuses of premier academic establishments of the US in India,” mentioned a joint assertion by the heads of states.
The leaders additionally highlighted the numerous contributions of Indian college students to the US financial system, noting that the group of over 300,000 contributes greater than USD$8 billion yearly and helps the creation of quite a few direct and oblique jobs.
“On this regard, the leaders dedicated to streamlining avenues for authorized mobility of scholars and professionals, and facilitating short-term vacationer and enterprise journey, whereas additionally aggressively addressing unlawful immigration and human trafficking by taking sturdy motion in opposition to unhealthy actors, felony facilitators, and unlawful immigration networks to advertise mutual safety for each international locations,” added the assertion.
The assembly between Trump and Modi comes amid latest US deportations of unlawful Indian migrants, with extra deportations anticipated within the coming weeks.
Each leaders resolved to strengthen collaborations between the upper schooling establishments
Trump-Modi joint assertion
Furthermore, India’s monetary legislation enforcement company just lately claimed that over 260 increased schooling establishments are implicated in a probe into an unlawful scheme that transported Indians throughout the US border utilizing Canadian examine visas.
Partnership between Indian and American scientific analysis communities was additionally mentioned between the 2 leaders.
“The leaders underscored the worth of deepening ties between the US and Indian scientific analysis communities, asserting a brand new partnership between the US Nationwide Science Basis and the Indian Anusandhan Nationwide Analysis Basis in researching vital and rising applied sciences,” mentioned the assertion.
“This partnership builds on ongoing collaboration between the US Nationwide Science Basis and several other Indian science businesses to allow joint analysis within the areas of semiconductors, linked autos, machine studying, next-generation telecommunications, clever transportation programs, and future biomanufacturing.”
The event follows specialists’ emphasis on the essential want for substantial analysis funding for Indian universities and scientific analysis communities to foster innovation in India, as mentioned at The PIE Reside India 2025.
Indian and US universities have already established a job pressure, created final 12 months as a part of the Biden administration’s US-India Initiative on Crucial and Rising Expertise.
The leaders introduced the launch of the US-India TRUST (Remodeling the Relationship Utilising Strategic Expertise) initiative to drive collaboration amongst governments, academia, and the non-public sector in making use of vital and rising applied sciences throughout varied fields, together with defence, synthetic intelligence, semiconductors, quantum, biotechnology, power, and area.
The initiative can even promote using verified expertise distributors and implement measures to safeguard delicate applied sciences.
Regardless of Trump’s threats to impose “reciprocal tariffs” on India owing to India’s excessive tariffs on US merchandise, each India and the US pledged to double their bilateral commerce by 2030.
“The leaders resolved to develop commerce and funding to make their residents extra affluent, nations stronger, economies extra revolutionary and provide chains extra resilient,” the assertion learn.
“They resolved to deepen the US-India commerce relationship to advertise progress that ensures equity, nationwide safety and job creation. To this finish, the leaders set a daring new aim for bilateral commerce – ‘Mission 500’ – aiming to greater than double complete bilateral commerce to $500bn by 2030.”
