Terming the 'historic transformation of United States' ties with the rising democratic power India' as among its key strategic accomplishments, the Bush administration has said it will enable Washington to advance its 'interests and values' in the region in future.

"There are other strategic accomplishments in Asia... partnerships with a newly democratic Afghanistan, a democratic Pakistan, and an historic transformation of our relationship with the rising democratic power, India," US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said while addressing The Heritage Foundation.

Rice was at the conservative thinktank to speak about US ties with Asia during the Bush administration.

"At the beginning of our administration, it was a bit rocky in Asia. Tensions were rising across the Taiwan Strait. Violence in Kashmir was pulling India and Pakistan towards conflict. A failed state in Afghanistan was a source of regional and, as we found out, global instability. And North Korea, illicitly pursuing a uranium enrichment capability, announced its withdrawal from the Non-Proliferation Treaty, threw international inspectors out of the country, and began once again to produce plutonium," Rice said in her opening remarks.

"These actions contributed to rising tension across Asia, but most importantly in Northeast Asia, the most dynamic part of the region and, historically, the most volatile".

Since 2001, Rice said, the United States has improved its relationship with every state in Northeast Asia simultaneously.

"Now, I'm a political scientist, and that wasn't supposed to be possible," Rice quipped. "We have new, deeper relations with other emerging powers, particularly with a democratic Indonesia.

"When all of this is seen together, it amounts to a new strategic foundation for US influence in Asia, a platform of partnerships that will enable America to advance its interests and its values in this dynamic region for years to come," Rice added.