Indian and foreign media may have missed it but the US-India joint statement will most certainly be scrutinised closely by Beijing for anti-China content.
What Trump says and what he does are two different things. There are strong reasons to believe that US’ Indo-Pacific strategy stops at the India-Pakistan border.
China is worried about an international backlash to its ‘re-education camps’, raising the stakes for Xi Jinping who has directly challenged Western-style democracy.
Vivek Rae committee highlighted the deficiencies that persist even today: Fragmented authority, weak accountability, and the absence of dedicated acquisition cadres.
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In a chat with ThePrint newsroom, French Ambassador Thierry Mathou indicated talks are on between French firm Safran & Indian govt for joint design & manufacture of AMCA engine.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
India needs to US to counter China in Indo Pacific and to fulfill this objective, it hardly matters whether India join with US or the Quad openly or otherwise. China has been inimical Indian interests in cahoot with Pakistan or otherwise. We are allowing them benefit of trade surplus of over 70 billion USD per year which is just senseless. Just look at how Trump has gone about trying to renegotiate trade deals with everyone around to ensure that USA’s trade deficit is contained. India in comparison has done nothing over the years to cap, reduce and eliminate Chinese trade surplus and our trading community has been merrily importing cheap Chinese goods and selling them in India. We need to take a hard stand with China and time has indeed come to join Quad openly for this, including Blue Dot initiative
India needs to US to counter China in Indo Pacific and to fulfill this objective, it hardly matters whether India join with US or the Quad openly or otherwise. China has been inimical Indian interests in cahoot with Pakistan or otherwise. We are allowing them benefit of trade surplus of over 70 billion USD per year which is just senseless. Just look at how Trump has gone about trying to renegotiate trade deals with everyone around to ensure that USA’s trade deficit is contained. India in comparison has done nothing over the years to cap, reduce and eliminate Chinese trade surplus and our trading community has been merrily importing cheap Chinese goods and selling them in India. We need to take a hard stand with China and time has indeed come to join Quad openly for this, including Blue Dot initiative
How many countries are participating in Blue dot network? Zero. How many countries are participating in belt and road? 100+