(L-R) India s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japan s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Japan s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Australia s Foreign Minister Marise Payne and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before a Quad Indo-Pacific meeting at the prime minister s office in Tokyo on October 6, 2020 AFP
The Economist magazine recently reported that when the United States, Australia, India, and Japan met in 2007 for a quadrilateral dialogue on security matters, many bet that the new grouping would “fizzle.”
The magazine noted that once non-aligned India, was “still suspicious of anything that smacked of an alliance.”
But defense ties among the four nations are now rapidly strengthening.
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Russia s Ambassador to India, His Excellency Nikolay Kudashev has spoken to Sputnik on a range of issues, including the Asia-Pacific region and how Russia is looking into the relationship with India against the backdrop of New Delhi’s deteriorating ties with Beijing.
India and Russia have moved to elevate their relationship to special and privileged status’ on 21 December 2010. Since that, the ties between the two nations have been progressing in a comprehensive and robust manner bilaterally and multilaterally.
Sputnik: When can we expect the annual bilateral summit between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin that was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year? Will we see some major agreements during the summit including those related to Russia s Sputnik V vaccine?
At least 39 Indian nationals on board two ships have been stranded in Chinese waters for several months now, India’s foreign ministry has said, adding that efforts are under way to bring them home.
Ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava told a media briefing on Thursday that 23 Indian crew members were on board MV Jag Anand, which has been anchored near Jingtang port in China’s Hebei province since June 13.
He added that another 16 Indian nationals were on another vessel, MV Anastasia, anchored near China’s Caofeidian port since September 20, waiting for the discharge of its cargo.
Srivastava said the Indian government was in “regular touch” with China to ensure the humanitarian needs of the stranded Indian citizens were being taken care of.
| UPDATED: 14:45, Fri, Dec 18, 2020
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Chinese officials said the crews of two Indian vessels had been caught up in the country s tight coronavirus restrictions but defence analysts fear they have being targeted by Beijing as part of a simmering border feud between the nuclear-armed Asian neighbours.
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Pakistan’s foreign ministry has rejected New Delhi’s “baseless allegations” it had supported terrorist operations in India. The comments came on the 19th anniversary of the 2001 attack on India’s parliament, which saw nine people killed by Pakistan-based armed group Jaish-e-Mohammed. Tensions between India and Pakistan have reached boiling point this year as border disputes and Chinese interference sparked intense rows.