Noting that the US-India partnership is more crucial than ever before, the ambassadors of the two countries have said the bilateral collaboration can have a big impact on global peace and prosperity. Indian Ambassador to the US Arun K Singh and and his American counterpart Richard Rahul Verma wrote in a joint op-ed article in The Huffington Post that our leaders have aggressively set out to increase our defense cooperation, create greater economic opportunities for our people and work more closely on climate change. Our national interests are converging on the vital issues of the day, they wrote in their joint op-ed published yesterday.<br/><br/>Terming India and the US as "natural partners", Singh and Verma said the two counties are "indeed on a course to be best partners". They said the historic visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US and US President Barack Obama to India helped the "relationship soar, moving us past old disagreements and paving the way forward for even more ambitious new collaborations".' <br/><br/>The two diplomats said, Mr. Modi and Mr. Obama's vision of a rules-based international order – where disputes between states are settled peacefully, trade flows more freely and clean energy reduces the threat of climate change-offers the best promise of a more peaceful, prosperous and sustainable century than the past one. Since President Obama's January visit to India, the ambassadors said, the two countries are now working on new initiatives from the outer reaches of space to the depths of the oceans.