New Delhi: While the US and India avoided the human rights attack on Wednesday, visited the State Secretary Antony Blinken sent a strong message to China by facing the Dalai Lama representative and separately met with an official in exile in exile.
The signal came even when Blinken said the diversity of trigger and national strength of India and Indian democracy was powered by free-minded residents after meeting with his colleague S Jaishankar.
At the round table with civil society, Blinken said India and US democracy were working in the process and that successful democracy included tightening civil society.
“That’s the citizen becomes more involved in their community’s life.
That’s how we organize and provide resources to respond to emergencies,” he said, adding that vibrant civil society is needed to make democracy more open, more inclusive, more resilient and fairer , However, the round table was also attended by the old Dalai representative.
In what was seen as a clear message to China about continuing US support to the causes of Tibet, Blinken also separately met Ngodup Dongchung, an official in the Tibetan-in-exile and representative from the Dalai Lama.
The meeting with the Dalai people of the Lama will hardly go down with China who have refused to soften their dislike of the respected leaders held due to Tibetans throughout the world.
Blinken said the shared values ​​of India-US and democratic tradition were part of a conversation and added that Americans admired India’s commitment to rights, democracy and pluralism.
“The relationship is strong because of the two democracies.
Indian democracy is powered by residents who ran out.
I approached this with humility.
The US also has a challenge.
Search is for more perfect unions which means we are not perfect.
Sometimes, the challenge can be painful , even bad, “said Blinken, responded to a query about the alleged decline in democratic values ​​in India.
Jaishankar responds by saying that the search for unions is more perfectly applied to the US and all other democracies, including India.
“There are moral obligations for the right historical errors and our policies fall in that category do not equalize freedom with non-governance or lack of governance,” Jaishankar said.
“Indians and Americans believe in human dignity, in equality of opportunity, legal supremacy, fundamental freedom, including religious freedom and confidence.
We believe that everyone deserves to have votes in their government and treated respectfully no matter who they are .
This is a fundamental principle of democracy like us, and our goal is to provide real meaning to these words and constantly renew our commitment to these ideals, “he said.