印度与美国的关系“非常好”，商务部长皮尤什·戈亚尔表示，尽管贸易紧张局势仍在酝酿，且特朗普总统因声称自己帮助调停了印度与巴基斯坦之间的武装冲突而激怒了新德里。
India’s ties with the US are “very good,” Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said, even as trade tensions simmer and after President Donald Trump irritated New Delhi by claiming he helped mediate an end to armed clashes with Pakistan.
“我目前看不出有任何问题，”戈亚尔周三在新德里新经济论坛上表示，他在回应关于印度与美国关系是否会在不同政府下改善的问题时如此说道。
“I don’t see any problem as we speak,” Goyal said Wednesday at the New Economy Forum in New Delhi, responding to a question on whether India’s relationship with the US would improve under a different administration.
“印度与美国的关系非常实质性，对世界具有重要意义，因为两国都是大型民主国家，”部长在小组讨论期间表示。
“The relationship with the US that India enjoys is very substantive, is very consequential for the world, being two large democracies,” the minister said during a panel discussion.
此番言论是在印度和美国在长期谈判中难以达成贸易协议、且因特朗普实施惩罚性关税导致关系恶化之后作出的。特朗普就印度去年短暂的武装冲突发表评论，违背了外交规范，进一步损害了双边关系。
The remarks come as India and the US have struggled to hammer out a trade deal during prolonged negotiations and after relations were soured by Trump’s punitive tariffs. Ties were further dented by the president’s comments on India’s brief armed conflict with Pakistan last year that breached diplomatic norms.
华盛顿的最新争端源于印度一些最大的IT服务企业，以及微软公司和Adobe公司被暂停参与一项长期存在的移民计划，这是打击所谓H-1B工作签证系统滥用行为的一部分。
The latest flashpoint with Washington comes after the suspension of some of India’s biggest IT services businesses as well as Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Inc. from a longstanding immigration initiative as part of a crackdown on alleged abuse of the H-1B worker visa system.
副总统JD·万斯呼吁美国企业雇佣更多美国工人，并“停止进口契约劳工来做美国工人愿意做的工作”。印度政府将其言论称为“深刻冒犯”。在印度，契约劳工与殖民时期的制度相关联，当时工人被迫在海外种植园和农场中从事剥削性劳动。
Vice President JD Vance urged US firms to hire more US workers and to “stop importing an indentured servant to do a job that an American worker would happily do.”India’s government branded the comments “deeply offensive.”An indentured servant is associated in India with a colonial-era system in which workers were forced into labor on plantations and farms overseas under exploitative conditions.
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“美国和印度拥有非常、非常重要的关系，而且无论政治思维如何变化——无论是在印度还是在美国——这种关系只会变得更好，”他说。
“The US and India have a very, very consequential relationship, and it’s only going to get better, irrespective of changes in political thinking, whether in India or in the US,” he said.
“美国和印度继续保持非常密切的关系，我们也在多个层面继续与他们保持接触，”包括在国防领域，致力于确保技术、商品和服务的供应链保持开放。
“The United States and India continue to have a very close relationship, and we continue to engage with them on so many tracks,” including in defense, working toward ensuring open supply chains on technology, on goods, on services.
与此同时，戈亚尔表示，印度正致力于恢复与中国的关系，并补充说，“在这段旅程中，最终的结局尚未确定。”在2020年致命的中印边境冲突促使新德里对中国企业实施广泛限制之后，两国关系开始出现缓和。
Separately, Goyal said India is aiming to revive its relationship with China, while adding that “the last word has not yet been scripted on this journey.”Ties are beginning to thaw after a deadly India-China border clash in 2020 prompted New Delhi to impose a broad range of restrictions on Chinese companies.
“只要我们能获得公平的交易，只要我们能确保合作的连续性，只要地缘政治局势不恶化，我们就对世界各国持开放态度，”戈亚尔说。
“We are open to all countries around the world as long as we get a fair deal, as long as we are ensured continuity in the engagement, and as long as the geopolitical situation does not deteriorate,” Goyal said.