India, Israel, and the United States have started a partnership in the developmental area and in the next generation of emerging technologies including transparent, open, and secure 5G communication networks. This trilateral collaboration is an outcome of people-to-people collaboration.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi initiated this collaboration during his historic visit to Israel three years ago in July 2017. Bonnie Glick, Deputy Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) said, “Because we’ll collaborate in science and research and development in coming up with the next generations of technologies, things that the likes of you and the rest of us on the phone can’t even imagine what they might be. But by partnering by officially, affirming the importance of this relationship, we’ll advance it.”

She added, “So it’s only that our three nations play a key role in delivering the promise of 5G in a way that is open, interoperable, reliable, and secure. We cannot allow any nation to dominate this technology or use it to dominate other nations.”

Javier Piedra, deputy assistant administrator of the Bureau for Asia at USAID, said that the case of India and Israel, they had a “peer-to-peer relationship”, always looking to see how they might advance their respective activities cooperatively so that they might leverage common goals, resources, and comparative advantages in pursuit of self-reliance globally.