Overview
- India will be invited next month to join Pax Silica as a full member, a U.S.-led effort to secure silicon, semiconductor and AI supply chains with partners such as Japan, South Korea, the UK and Israel.
- Gor said negotiators will speak on Jan. 13 to restart work on a trade package after weeks of drift and reports of U.S. duties reaching 50% on Indian goods.
- Calling India “the most essential” partner, he outlined parallel cooperation on security, counter-terrorism, energy, technology, education and health.
- He highlighted personal rapport between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said Trump hopes to visit India within the next one or two years.
- His remarks followed public friction over U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s claim about leader-level calls, which India’s foreign ministry has rejected as inaccurate.