The strategy is expected to create further opportunities for investment across Indo-Pacific capitals, including India, which must be strategically leveraged with firm intent.
Ambassador Diana Mickevičienė talks about ‘Chinese economic coercion’, Lithuania's Indo-Pacific strategy & its keenness to develop 'high-tech partnership' with 'like-minded' India.
The document also named India a key ally in furthering the US' Indo-Pacific strategy, as part of the country's goal towards a 'free and open' Indo-Pacific region.
US readout of call said Blinken & Wang spoke about ‘developments in DPRK & Russia’s aggression against Ukraine’. Chinese statements were harsher, vociferous against Indo-Pacific.
Quad is currently the only regional outfit to deal with challenges posed by China’s belligerence. The Indo-Pacific, therefore, needs to start working on various levels.
A top French diplomat said that for Paris"this is a strategic question concerning the very nature of the relationship between Europe and the United States about the Indo-Pacific strategy."
Both countries identified artificial intelligence, information sharing, logistics, space and cyber as key areas of cooperation besides expanding military-to-military engagement.
No leader in recent memory has so completely and profoundly transformed strategic thinking in Asia and his vision is integral to how diplomats and politicians in the region operate.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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