Divya Delhi ; At a Monday news briefing, White House news Secretary Karoline Leavitt lauded India as a crucial Indo-Pacific ally. She also noted Trump and Modi's close relationship. How does the US view China's presence in the Indo-Pacific? Leavitt told ANI, “India remains a very strategic ally in the Asia Pacific and the President has a very good relationship with Prime Minister Modi, and he will continue to have that.” External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is attending the QUAD Foreign Ministers' Meeting in the US. He opened “The Human Cost of Terrorism,” a UN exhibition about state-sponsored terrorism, on Monday. Australia, India, Japan, and the US form the QUAD diplomatic cooperation. It supports an inclusive, resilient, open, stable, and prosperous Indo-Pacific. The grouping began with the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami humanitarian response. On June 18, US President Donald Trump accepted Prime Minister Modi's offer to attend the QUAD Summit in New Delhi later this year. Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri described the phone call between the leaders during the G7 Summit in Canada.