![]() Garcetti has yet to hold a press conference about Chinese Communist Party (CCP) incursions into Indian sovereign territory from Occupied Tibet, or the CCP’s mission to destabilize India by infiltrating Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Myanmar. We have been there now every single time in recent years India needed us.” Yet Ambassador Garcetti has yet to address the security crisis sweeping South Asia after the Biden administration’s disastrous pullout from Kabul in August 2021, gifting the Taliban over $50 billion in US weaponry and Bagram airbase. Sometimes, partners sounds too clinical and we’re really friends in times of need. In an interview with the Hindu on 15 June 2023, Garcetti said of the US-India relationship: “It’s deeper than partners. When Biden was Obama’s Vice President, US Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Gary Locke tweeted about his success in quadrupling visas for Chinese applicants, as visas for Indian citizens sharply declined. Go Team Consular!” It remains to be seen if the Biden State Department will honour this pledge, as for many years Chinese nationals have far outnumbered Indian students at US universities. On 8 June 2023, the new envoy posted: “This summer, we’re on track to process the highest number of Indian student visa applications in the history of this Mission. Garcetti has pledged to address the backlog of US visas applications by Indian citizens, and the slowdown in green card processing for Indians residing in the US. Since arriving in New Delhi on 24 March 2023, US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti has launched a lively Twitter feed, posting about Gujarati street food, dinner with Shahrukh Khan in Mumbai, sharing a video from a Tamil bistro in New Delhi set to a jazz pop soundtrack, where he described eating off a banana leaf with his hands, saying, “They say the best way to someone’s heart is through their stomach, so Chennai, today you’ve got my heart.” While it is encouraging to see the new US envoy expressing enthusiasm for Indian culture and cuisine, Ambassador Garcetti also needs to address weightier strategic and policy matters between India and the United States. ![]() Will Ambassador Garcetti address the serious threats to India’s security from the Taliban and the CCP, or will he follow Ambassador Rahm Emanuel and push a radical transgender ideology via USAID grants, while posting cheerful videos about the marvels of Indian cuisine? ![]()
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