Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday called for a partnership with India to protect an “international order” threatened by the rise of China.

“[T]he world – and the Indo-Pacific in particular – needs the United States and India to have a strong partnership,” Tillerson said Wednesday during an address at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.

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