EAM S. Jaishankar says, "That today, you know, the US relationship is both for strategic purposes and for economic purposes in many ways a very invaluable relationship for us. Now, where the US is concerned, I mean, I would, I mean, I again, accept the history, I think all of us, none of us are in denial and he brings it out quite graphically, but succinctly. I mean, we've had a series of challenges with the United States in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s. The challenge for us is when we think of multipolarity and strategic autonomy, because of that history, it is often a concept where we ourselves against the United States"
