and when I look at this audience, or when I visit this incredible country over these last couple of days, I see a people that will not be held back. The most profound responsibility I believe that all of us have is not to ourselves, but to the next generation to make sure we leave them with a better society than the one that our parents and our grandparents gave us. And this is the world that America seeks to create with you. We want to build a bright new world, one that's constantly innovating, one that's helping people to form families, making it easier to build, invest and trade together in pursuit of common goals. Now, I believe that our nations have much to offer one another, and that's why we come to you as partners, looking to strengthen our relationship. Now we're not here to preach that you do things any one particular way too often in the past, Washington approached Prime Minister Modi with an attitude of preaching this or even one of condescension, prior administrations saw India as a source of low cost labor, on the one hand, even as they criticized the Prime Minister's government, arguably the most popular in the democratic world. And as I told Prime Minister Modi last night, he's got approval ratings that would make me jealous. But it wasn't just India. This attitude captured too much of our economic relationship with the rest of the world, so we shipped countless jobs overseas, and with them our capacity to make things for furniture, appliances and even weapons of war, we traded hard power for soft power, because with economic integration, we were told would also come peace through sameness. Over time, we all assumed the same sort of land, secular, universal values, no matter where you live, the world was flat. After all, that was the thesis, and that was what they told us. And when that thesis proved false, or at least incomplete, leaders in the West took it upon themselves to flatten it by any means necessary. But many people across the world, and I think your country counts among them, they did not want to be flattened. Many were proud of where they came from, their way of life, the kind of jobs they worked, and the kind of jobs their parents worked before them, and that very much includes people in my own country, the United States of America. Now, some of you are aware of my own background. I actually didn't plan to talk about my background at all until last night at dinner while my children mostly to hate he gave an A minus for behavior. With the prime minister. The prime minister said, I have one request. I want you to talk a little bit about your background. And so I wanted to do that. For those of you who don't know anything about me, I want to talk about it. I come from, and I'm biased, the greatest state in the Union, the state of Ohio, a long time manufacturing powerhouse in the United States of America. My home specifically, is a place called Middletown. Now it's not a massive city by any means. It's not Jake or but it's a decent sized town and a place where people make things, which has been a point of pride in Middletown for generations. It's filled with families like my own, some of whom called us hillbillies, Americans who came down from the surrounding hills and mountains of West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky, to cities like Middletown in pursuit of the manufacturing jobs that were creating widespread prosperity for families all across America. They came to Middletown in search of what we call back home, the American dream in Middletown. My parents raised me. My grandparents raised me. They taught us to work hard. They taught me to study hard, and they taught me to love God and my country and always be good to your own my granddad, who I called Pat ball growing up, he typified that late into life, he worked as a steel maker at the local mill, because I know India has a lot of those. Apple's job gave him a good wage, stable hours and a generous pension. All that allowed him to support not just him and my grandmother, but his own daughter and grandkids with him. Now, by the time I came around, money was awfully tight, but he worked hard to make a good living for all of us. Now, I know Papa and Mama were grateful for the way of life. Their country made possible. Their generation bore witness to the formation of America's great middle class, and by creating an economy centered around production, around workers who build things, and around the value of their labor, our nation's leaders then transformed their country and made 1000s of little middletowns possible. The government supported its labor force. We created incentives for productive industries to take root and struck good deals with international partners to sell the goods made in the United States of America. But as America settled in to world historic prosperity it generated. Our leaders began to take that very prosperity and what created it for granted. They forgot the importance of building, of supporting productive industry, of striking fair deals and of supporting our workers and their families. And as time went on, we saw the consequences. In my hometown, factories left, jobs evaporated. America's middletowns ceased to be the lifeblood of our nation's economy, and the United States, as it became, transformed, those very people, the working class, the background of the United States of America, were dismissed as backwards for holding on to the values their people and healthier for generations. Now, Middletown story is my story, but it's hardly unusual. In the United States of America, there are 10s of millions of Americans who, over the last 20 or so years, have woken up to what's happening in our nation. But I believe they woke up well before it's too late now, like you, we want to appreciate our history, our culture, our religion. We want to do commerce and strike good deals with our friends. We want to found our vision of the future upon the proud recognition of our heritage rather than self loathing and fear. I work for a President who has long understood all of this, whether through fighting those who seek to erase American history, or in support of fair trade deals abroad, he has been consistent on these issues for decades, and as a result, under the Trump administration, America now has a government that has learned from the mistakes of the past. It's why President Trump cares so deeply about protecting the manufacturing economy that is the lifeblood of American prosperity, and making sure America's workers have opportunities for good jobs, as we saw earlier this month, he will go to extraordinary lengths to protect and expand those opportunities for all Americans. And so today, I come here with a simple message, our administration seeks trade partners on the basis of fairness and of shared national interests. We want to build relationships with our foreign partners who respect their workers, who don't suppress their wages to boost exports, but respect the value of their labor. We want partners that are committed to working with America to build things, not just allowing themselves to become a conduit for trade, shipping others goods. And finally, we want to partner with people and countries who recognize the historic nature of the moment we're in. Of the need to come together and build something truly new, a system of global trade that is balanced, one that is open and one that is stable and fair. I want to be clear, America's partners need not look exactly like America, nor must our governments do everything exactly the same way, but we should have some common goals, and I believe here in India, we do in both economics and in national security, and that's why we're so excited. That's why I'm so excited to be here today in India, America has a friend, and we seek to strengthen the warm bonds our great nations already share. Now, critics have attacked my president, President Trump, for starting a trade war in an effort to bring back the jobs of the past, but nothing could be further from the truth. He seeks to rebalance global trade so that America, with friends like India, can build a future worth having for all of our people together, when President Trump and Prime Minister Modi announced in February that our country's aim to more than double our bilateral trade to $500 billion by the end of the decade. I know that both of them vented, and I'm encouraged by everything our nations are doing to get us there. As many of you are aware, both of our governments are hard at work on a trade agreement built on shared priorities by creating new jobs, building durable supply chains and achieving prosperity for our workers. In our meeting yesterday, Prime Minister Modi and I made very good progress on all those points, and we are especially excited to formally announce that America and India have officially finalize the terms of reference for the trade negotiation. I think this is a vital step.