The Long and Winding Road to US-India Cyber Cooperation

The Wire

Subimal Bhattacharjee
June 10, 2016

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded his fourth visit to the US recently, one in which he had significant discussions on cyber security cooperation with President Barack Obama. This was possibly the last such meeting before Obama demits office later this year. These discussions endorsed a factsheet that should result in the signing of the framework for the US-India cyber relationship in the next two months. Not that India and the US have not engaged on cyber issues in the past; they started after the historic meeting between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President George W. Bush in November 2001. However, engagement over …

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