Obama for 21st century partnership |
Former US president Barack Obama said on Dec 1, 2017, that the India-US relationship could be a “defining partnership of the 21st century” and that charting the course for the future will also depend on the young people of the two countries. At a town hall organised by the Obama Foundation where he addressed young leaders from across India, he said the single most important thing he wanted to focus for the rest of his career was training the next generation of leadership not only in the US but across the world. Obama also said that he would continue to fight forces of discrimination and racism. With its largest young population in the world, India holds an important place for him, he said. Both India and the US are hugely diverse and have many common shared values, he said. He believed that the relationship between the two countries can be a “defining partnership of the 21st century”, he said. To a question from a transgender woman who rued discriminatory laws in India, Obama said he would not get into specifics of local laws but advised her to find her voice and tell her stories so that the perception that she was different was broken down.He advised young leaders to work to make things better and embrace incremental changes as they will never get 100 per cent of what they want.
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