india away from russian military supplies implicitly suggesting this could be a oneoff exception while urging congress to recognize that india faces immediate and serious regional border threats from china with incessant military aggression along the border the lawmaker called for additional steps to transition india from russiabuilt systems to strongly supporting indias defense needs a euphemism for us suppliesin this context the legislation talked up the usindia initiative on critical and emerging technologies icet announcing during the recent tokyo meeting between president biden and prime minister modi saying it is a welcome and essential step to developing closer partnerships between governments academia and industry in the two countries to address the latest advances in artificial intelligence quantum computing biotechnology aerospace and semiconductor manufacturingsuch collaborations between engineers and computer scientists are vital to help ensure that the united states and india as well as other democracies around the world foster innovation and facilitate technological advances which continue to far outpace russian and chinese technology the legislation said