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A newly-declassified US national security document obtained by ABC news reveals previously secret details of the Trump administration's strategy for the Indo-Pacific region

Posted on January 7th, 2021 MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E The Indian Foreign Minister arrived in Sri Lanka on Tuesday. His schedule includes discussions with the President, Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister.  Any visit by any Indian minister or senior official is important, this is undebatable. Not because ‘we are old friends’ or ‘have a long, shared history’ (the ‘friendship’ is debatable and the ‘history’ has been by and large sordid). That said, thing...

Mike Pompeo Highlights US-India Relations In Trade, Military & Indo-Pacific To Counter China January 6, 2021 The US-India relations have “never been closer, from trade to military cooperation and more”, tweeted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He also underlined how the US is forging ties with Australia and Japan in the Indo-Pacific region to counter “Communist China”. Pompeo has been posting a series of tweets highlighting the Trump administration’s foreign policy milestones, in th...

Indian armed forces displayed firm resolve in blunting Chinese aggression in 2020 SECTIONS Last Updated: Dec 30, 2020, 03:47 PM IST Share Synopsis The Chinese military muscle-flexing forced the top military brass to readjust the national security doctrine that included greater focus on tri-services convergence and boosting the overall combat capabilities of the armed forces to deal with all possible future security challenges. AP In this Thursday, Sept.10, 2020 file photo, water is sprayed on a...

Indias foreign policy in 2020 saw recalibration following Chinese misadventure Monday, December 28, 2020 By: Deccan Herald India embarked on a major foreign policy overdrive in 2020, bringing its vision for a rules-based Indo-Pacific as a cornerstone of its diplomacy and displaying a steely resolve to fashion a regional environment conducive to its strategic interests in the face of Chinas transgression atte...

To Balance China, Joe Biden Should Build Upon Trump’s India Strategy For the United States to counterbalance an increasingly assertive China, President Biden has to push the India policy envelope conceived by the Trump administration while championing America’s founding values of freedom and democracy. President Donald Trump’s “America First” ethos has permanently aligned India within the United States’ overarching Indo-Pacific strategy. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s uniqu...

Follow us on INDIA The great Indian dilemma: Can Indian military prepare to confront China in 2027 all on its own? (Part 2) December 28, 2020, 2:00 PM IST Dr. Maj Gen (Retd) Anil Kumar Lal is a Defence Analyst who has authored many path-breaking concepts on Nuclear and Space Warfare strategies. He feels that the future Military Forces would be dictated by a new concept of Strategic detterence which would be a combined effect of Nuclear and Space detterence. He is a third gener...

NEW DELHI, Dec 27: India embarked on a major foreign policy overdrive in 2020, bringing its vision for a rules-based Indo-Pacific as a cornerstone of its diplomacy and displaying a steely resolve to fashion a regional environment conducive to its strategic interests in the face of China’s transgression attempts in eastern Ladakh that caused the most serious damage to the bilateral relations in over four decades. As the bitter border standoff with China forced it to recalibrate its external en...

News From Antiwar.com Original and up-to-date news US Is Helping India With Surveillance of Chinese Military Near Disputed Border India signed defense pact in October that allows US to share satellite data With an increase in tensions between India and China along the disputed border in the Himalayas, the US is helping India keep an eye on China’s military. In October, the US and India signed a new defense pact that allows the US to share more satellite data with New Delhi. At an event in No...

REUTERS/Danish Ismail Disputes between India and China over their border in the Himalayas have intensified in recent months, after a deadly clash between their troops in June. That adds to broader competition between India and China on land and at sea around Asia, but recent military agreements with the US allow India to watch rival Chinese forces more closely. As tension between India and China has increased in recent months, the US military has helped India keep ...