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Thanks to Galwan and its aftermath, India has embraced Quad openly and wholeheartedly. As of now, it is more of broad based soft power approach to come together but in due course, depending on Chinese behavior, Quad may evolve into its military dimension as well. In any case, thanks to Malabar exercises as well as various agreements signed with USA, India’s capabilities for maritime monitoring, surveillance and intelligence has drastically improved. USA is also ready to sell latest equipment required by us. So India will walk the talk on Quad as China misbehaves!
China never misbehaved with India or the US or any country in the world. External affairs minister Jaishankar advised Modi to give up confronting China and cooperate with it, to improve India/s economy, which is in shambles. Modi was convinced, until Shah changed his mind. Jaishankar was posted in Beijing, where he learned the mindset of the Chinese and is convinced China doesn’t want war with anyone. China only wants trade to free the world from poverty and ensure prosperity to all, including the people of USA. China is blessed with an error correcting system and no one can beat that.
Very balanced article. Pls continue to write the impact on critical and emerging technologies.
India is an odd country out of the group. Why should India be in the group? Is there any tangible benefit to India.
We understand that due to geopolitical reason, U.S is using its allies to reap the benefits of ensuring there is no competitor so that it can remain as hegemony empire of the world. Australia is just a puppet country to U.S. Japan needs to get protection from U.S lest its crime of humanity against Korea and China during WW2, will be atoned.
So many CCP sympathisers here! Hard to believe it! They are yet to come to terms that India rattled the Chinese dragon’s old bones and showed up with many global countries interested in a dragon hunt.
I’m more inclined to think india is the pivotal country in the Indo part of indo-pacific. The US is more than adequately positioned via a vis China in the Pacific. It’s the IOR, South China sea, the Straits of Malacca and the Gulfs of Persia and Aden where the US will look at india taking the lead. India also offers deep strategic land access to China which no other QUAD nation does. It gives the QUAD a major advantage which China doesn’t have close to the US abs Australian land mass. The question really is how far india will walk along this path, and whether the US will have the patience for our dilly dallying.
“But the increasing gap in the comprehensive national power of China and India may leave it with little alternative but to look to the US as a critical security provider”
People don’t work for free and countries don’t either. What is the US going to charge? If the US protects India then how does India repay the US? Conservatively, I predict India will have to station thousands of soldiers in Afghanistan for 10+ years to pay its debt to the US. Certainly, there is a fair chance for a war between India and the Taliban/Pakistan inside Afghanistan if India does send thousands of troops in Afghanistan. That is too high of a cost. Peace with China on China’s terms is a better option.
Difficult to reconcile the stark choice spelt out in the concluding paragraph – which would be the classic definition of a client state – with the soaring vision of Aatma Nirbhar Bharat.
The heading is “Can India walk the talk on Quad? That’s what China wants to know” . The answer, probably hidden, lies inside the article.
“The aim, however, is to take on the comprehensive challenge that Beijing has offered, ranging from trade, technology, aid and connectivity”.
The challenge posed by China is not Military. That is so even in Ladakh region. India can definitely walk the talk in trade, technology and connectivity. Hence, to say that “…may leave it (India) with little alternative but to look to the US as a critical security provider…” and making the Quad to be an unequal partnership may not be correct.
Thanks to Galwan and its aftermath, India has embraced Quad openly and wholeheartedly. As of now, it is more of broad based soft power approach to come together but in due course, depending on Chinese behavior, Quad may evolve into its military dimension as well. In any case, thanks to Malabar exercises as well as various agreements signed with USA, India’s capabilities for maritime monitoring, surveillance and intelligence has drastically improved. USA is also ready to sell latest equipment required by us. So India will walk the talk on Quad as China misbehaves!
China never misbehaved with India or the US or any country in the world. External affairs minister Jaishankar advised Modi to give up confronting China and cooperate with it, to improve India/s economy, which is in shambles. Modi was convinced, until Shah changed his mind. Jaishankar was posted in Beijing, where he learned the mindset of the Chinese and is convinced China doesn’t want war with anyone. China only wants trade to free the world from poverty and ensure prosperity to all, including the people of USA. China is blessed with an error correcting system and no one can beat that.
Very balanced article. Pls continue to write the impact on critical and emerging technologies.
India is an odd country out of the group. Why should India be in the group? Is there any tangible benefit to India.
We understand that due to geopolitical reason, U.S is using its allies to reap the benefits of ensuring there is no competitor so that it can remain as hegemony empire of the world. Australia is just a puppet country to U.S. Japan needs to get protection from U.S lest its crime of humanity against Korea and China during WW2, will be atoned.
So be careful, India. Be real careful.
So many CCP sympathisers here! Hard to believe it! They are yet to come to terms that India rattled the Chinese dragon’s old bones and showed up with many global countries interested in a dragon hunt.
I’m more inclined to think india is the pivotal country in the Indo part of indo-pacific. The US is more than adequately positioned via a vis China in the Pacific. It’s the IOR, South China sea, the Straits of Malacca and the Gulfs of Persia and Aden where the US will look at india taking the lead. India also offers deep strategic land access to China which no other QUAD nation does. It gives the QUAD a major advantage which China doesn’t have close to the US abs Australian land mass. The question really is how far india will walk along this path, and whether the US will have the patience for our dilly dallying.
Who cares what some CCP communist rag GT says, really?. and in India people are writing essays about it.
The print is always supports anti India activities, left views … it is unfortunate!
“But the increasing gap in the comprehensive national power of China and India may leave it with little alternative but to look to the US as a critical security provider”
People don’t work for free and countries don’t either. What is the US going to charge? If the US protects India then how does India repay the US? Conservatively, I predict India will have to station thousands of soldiers in Afghanistan for 10+ years to pay its debt to the US. Certainly, there is a fair chance for a war between India and the Taliban/Pakistan inside Afghanistan if India does send thousands of troops in Afghanistan. That is too high of a cost. Peace with China on China’s terms is a better option.
Difficult to reconcile the stark choice spelt out in the concluding paragraph – which would be the classic definition of a client state – with the soaring vision of Aatma Nirbhar Bharat.
The heading is “Can India walk the talk on Quad? That’s what China wants to know” . The answer, probably hidden, lies inside the article.
“The aim, however, is to take on the comprehensive challenge that Beijing has offered, ranging from trade, technology, aid and connectivity”.
The challenge posed by China is not Military. That is so even in Ladakh region. India can definitely walk the talk in trade, technology and connectivity. Hence, to say that “…may leave it (India) with little alternative but to look to the US as a critical security provider…” and making the Quad to be an unequal partnership may not be correct.