Jaishankar says 'India-US ties have grown in 8 years; India, China should find way to accommodate each other'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has no ideological baggage and this has helped India-US ties to grow in tremendous ways during the last eight years, said S Jaishankar while addressing a session at Columbia University.

About the rise of China and India's growth story, Jaishankar attributed factors that slowed down the country's growth as partition, delay in conducting nuclear tests and delay in initiating economic reforms. "China did not face partition and rather acquired territories, China conducted nuclear tests in 1964 and initiated economic reforms in the 1970s."

"In our times, the biggest change we have seen in the world is the rise of China," he said, adding: "It is in the mutual interest of India and China to find a way to accommodate each other." Jaishankar also met the Ukrainian PM on Wednesday.