Dramatic shift in NAM’s policy.
By Deepak Chitnis
WASHINGTON, DC: The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has reversed its long-held anti-India stance, urging the US government to pursue more extensive economic partnerships with India now that Narendra Modi and the BJP are in control of the country.
At an event in the nation’s capital on Wednesday morning, co-hosted by NAM and The Weekly Standard, NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons said that leaders within the US manufacturing industry are ready to work with India to forge important economic ties that will prove to be beneficial for both countries.
“NAM stands ready to work together with the Indian government and the Indian business community to share its experiences and best practices, as well as work with the US Congress and trade representatives,” said Timmons. “By working together on trade, investment and other issues, we can grow both our economies in a fast-paced and globally connected world economy.”
Timmons’ statements are a dramatic change-of-pace with what he and his organization were advocating in 2013. Last September, NAM launched a widespread campaign entitled “Manufacturers and Congress Agree: India must play fair on trade,” which called on the US to cut business ties with India because the latter was allegedly engaging in discriminatory practices against American firms.
“Reversing discrimination and restoring trust would be a win-win, enabling American exporters to further invest in India’s future and help India grow its economy and create opportunities for its people,” said NAM, in a statement at the time.
But now that Modi – who is staunchly pro-business and is in favor of opening India up to more business and foreign investment – and his Bharatiya Janata Party are in control of the country, NAM has likely seen their chance to re-connect with the subcontinent and create further economic partnerships. This is something both countries want, as they hope to reach $500 billion in trade within the next few years.
“Prime Minister Modi’s victory is a vital moment for U.S. and Indian leadership to chart a new path forward in our bilateral relationship,” said Timmons, during his remarks. “We and our trading partners around the world will be watching to see if the new Indian government truly wants a more constructive path going forward.”
Also speaking at the event was Virginia Senator Mark Warner, co-chair of the Senate India Caucus. Warner, a Democrat, recently proposed a 100-day action plan for India’s new government to re-strengthen ties with the US.
During his remarks, Warner reiterated that the US Congress is ready and willing to work with Modi and the new BJP-led government, saying “Let’s work together to celebrate the actual business opportunities and other ties we’ve made between our two great nations.”
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Americans are very opportunistic and can change their views as per situation. What happen to Gujarat’s CM Visa matter rejected by US and killing of 2000 Indians and in Iraq WMD [ Weapon of Mass Destruction] is missing now after illegal raid and killing of Saddam Hussein?
When any nation the size of India becomes stronger, even superpowers world have to take notice. There is no wonder. Only those people who are foolish enough to ignore a market of one.billion democratic people will ignore India.
DID THE FOLLOWING COMMENT OF MINE ABOUT RULE BY THE INFERIOR / LOW CASTES LEAD TO THE MURDER OF GOPINATH MUNDE? CERTAINLY COLLABORATION IN CIA’S CRIMES AGAINST ME IS BY LOW CASTES (STARTING WITH DRAVIDIAN K. SUBRAHMANYAM). EVERYTHING MODI HAS DONE SO FAR (100% FDI IN DEFENCE, RESEARCH PACT WITH ISRAEL, ETC.) SHOWS HIS LOW CASTE
(2nd Update) I have said that, starting with the Delhi gang-rape in a bus, the flurry of highly publicized gang rape cases in India has been staged by India’s RAW which is a branch of the CIA which has done this to brand India as unsafe for women, the rape capital of the world, etc. when exactly the opposite is true; rape is incomparably more prevalent in the United States and street violence against women in India is negligible compared to the United States. See WhatYouShouldKnowAboutRAWDOTblogspotDOTcom. The killing BY POLICEMEN of two girls who had gone to the fields to relieve themselves was staged by RAW to counter my comments about fecal bacteria from flush toilets in their drinking water forming the essence of Americans because of which they deserve to be killed as ruthlessly as fecal bacteria, going to the fields being the most environmentally friendly way to defecate, etc. after an American said “Do you have a toilet yet?“ in response to my comment about making India the supreme military and economic power in the world by destroying Washington and New York with emplaced nuclear warheads with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be similarly destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation. A woman named Kate commented on a photo-story of their killing in hromediaDOTcom : “These girls were gang raped, then the rapists dressed them back up..combed their hair and then hung them? Photo quality is poor..but does anyone else find the photo odd?” Yes it is odd because the whole incident was staged by RAW. By branding India as unsafe for women, the rape capital of the world, etc., the United States and its friends are seeking an excuse to invade and colonize India on the grounds of human rights, protecting women, etc. Goonda Modi has been appointed by CIA-RAW and collaborating in the planned American takeover of India of which 100% FDI in defence is a part. When Goonda Rahul Gandhi said “What superpower? I would rather make a woman safe in a bus” he was participating in the CIA’s project of branding India as unsafe for women, the rape capital of the world, etc., so later India can be invaded, under the auspices of the UN, to civilize it. Goonda Rahul had committed a gang rape of Sukanya Devi but most of the information about that gang rape on the Internet has disappeared as has the victim. A Goonda named Abhishek Singhvi, who has been responsible for suppressing information about the gang rape and apparent murder of Sukanya Devi by Goonda Rahul and himself was head of a parliamentary committee which approved the appointments of Supreme Court judges, had a candidate for such judgeship perform oral sex on him to be given the job and after a brief absence due to the publicity is back as Congress Party spokesman. It is an American custom to require oral sex from women before being given a job which Indians have adopted. Goonda Rahul is now very vocal and active in the case of the gang rape and hanging of the two girls. Why is everyone silent about the gang rape by him and apparent murder of Sukanya Devi? All the perpetrators are named Yadav because of the recent remarks by Mulayam Singh Yadav opposing death penalty for rape. This is typical of the way CIA-RAW design staged incidents as psy-ops (psychological operations). For a century now the Intelligence Bureau and its offshoots in India (which is RAW) and Pakistan have been inciting Hindu-Muslim conflict as provocateurs, making such conflict — like gang rape — from unthinkable or rare to commonplace, successfully resulting in partition of the country (via Hindu-Muslim conflict) and aiming for invasion and colonization (via gang rapes, etc.). The victims were made low caste because of my recent comment that the two most recent heads of India’s nuclear forces and the two most recent defence ministers have been Christians or Sikhs — all of whom are low caste Hindu converts — whose primary loyalty is to the Anglo-Americans — Sikhs played a major role in killing over ten million Indians in just the ten years after 1857 in just Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Bihar — and that is why India’s nuclear forces have so far failed to obey me to trigger India’s nuclear warheads I have had them emplace in Washington and New York. Mulayam Singh Yadav’s statement (“Boys make mistakes”) shows the importance of caste: Yadavs are OBC (Other Backward Classes) and his statement was in keeping with the ethical standards of low castes; a Brahmin would not have made such a statement because Brahmins adhere to higher ethical standards. Democracy translates to rule by the inferior and India has the British to thank for that. I have shown (RAWsTraffickingOfIndianChildrenDOTblogspotDOTcom) that on July 10, 2011 RAW carried out a railway accident in Uttar Pradesh so Rahul Gandhi could visit the victims and his visit splashed all over the media. The gang rape and hanging of these two girls with Rahul Gandhi’s advance knowledge and Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the victims’ families and its media coverage were carried out as part of Rahul Gandhi’s participation in CIA’s project to brand India unsafe for women, the rape capital of the world, etc. so India can be invaded and civilized. The campaign about toilets has the same purpose — to brand India as uncivilized and as part of his participation in CIA’s project, Modi says he would build toilets before temples. The two girls had gone to the fields to relieve themselves and this incident was designed by CIA-RAW to support both their campaign for toilets and against rape both of which boil down to the necessity to civilize India. This is what the United States is like — evil like which would not happen in India without CIA rule — and what has to be done: “”India’s greatest scientist and greatest living Indian publicly tortured in Harvard seminar, systematically and totally starved for up to 3 weeks at a time, made semi-starved and homeless and even blind for years, kept under 24-hour audio and video surveillance as well as surveillance of [and interference with] communications and electrical typewriter and computer use, document creation and photocopying, etc., by satellite for more than past 3 decades, systematically harassed and in poverty and neutralised and robbed of his work at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, robbed of crores in his money and property in India by C.I.A.-RAW, forced back into exile in the U.S., all with full cooperation and participation of India’s RAW and India’s C.I.A.-RAW-controlled prime ministers, politicians and media — to keep India poor, weak and enslaved” and how this means the nuclear destruction of New Delhi and then the coast-to-coast destruction of the U.S.; see my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.’ which can be found by a Yahoo/Google search with the title; my biography can be found in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World, 2014 and earlier editions.”