Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, is heading to Asia on a trip that will include an appearance at a security conference in India next week.

Gabbard announced in a social media post on Monday that she was traveling to Japan, Thailand and India and would visit France on the way back to the US.

It is Gabbard’s second international trip as a top Trump administration official. Immediately after she was confirmed a month ago, she traveled to Germany to attend the Munich Security Conference.

On March 18, Gabbard will participate in the Rasina Dialogue, a multinational gathering of security officials in New Delhi, to which she was invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. There, she will hold bilateral meetings with Indian officials and officials from other countries, a senior Trump administration official said.

According the Indias Ministry of External Affairs, the Raisina Dialogue is India's flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics, committed to addressing the most challenging issues facing the international community. The tenth edition of the conference - Kalachakra - is scheduled for three days - from March 17 to March 19. 

The Rasina conference is often attended by senior Russian security officials and experts. It is not clear, however, whether Gabbard will have bilateral meetings with Russian officials on the conference’s sidelines.

Trump administration officials’ comments at the Munich conference in February left many European diplomats reeling, particularly Vice-President JD Vance's rebuke of Europe for what he said was abridging conservatives’ free speech.

But Ms. Gabbard’s remarks, which focused on counterterrorism cooperation between Europe and America, were well received by European diplomats eager for any sign that US intelligence agencies intend to preserve their partnerships with longstanding allies. It is learnt that Gabbard may strike similar themes in India and would address counterterrorism, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and intelligence sharing.