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“In virtually every country or territory around the world, basketball is the No. 1 or No. 2 sport,” said deputy commissioner Mark Tatum.

He served as deputy director of the White House’s National Economic Council, 2001-02.

Kelly, the White House deputy press secretary, said India and the U.S. remain in close contact on a range of diplomatic, defense and commercial priorities.

Tommy Pigott, the State Department’s deputy spokesman, said in a statement that the administration’s foreign policy in the region “is centered towards prioritizing our national interests and standing with regional partners.”

As former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger points out, it is opening new recruitment centers and surging its military spending in what Chinese Communist Party leadership calls “preparations for war” with the U.S.