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2 Minding own business: By remaining silent on the Sino-Indian dispute, US Secretary of State Blinken has helped lower the temperature. Reuters
KP Nayar
Strategic Analyst
In the three weeks since Antony J Blinken has been US Secretary of State, he has already made an impact on India and its neighbourhood. Had Mike Pompeo continued as Secretary of State in a presumptive second Trump administration, it can be said the military disengagement by India and China along the LAC would not have taken place.
Pompeo inflicted tremendous damage to Sino-Indian ties when he was the chief US diplomat, most of it since spring last year when tensions flared up in Ladakh. By dragging LAC tensions into speech after speech, Pompeo contributed more than any other politician-diplomat anywhere in the world to vitiate the atmospherics of Sino-Indian efforts to return the LAC to some semblance of normalcy.
Updated Feb 15, 2021 | 14:31 IST
Jaishankar reviewed the progress of the Guwahati water supply project along with Japanese envoy to India Satoshi Suzuki. He lauded the India-Japan partnership and called for the Japanese to invest in Assam. External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar | Photo Credit: ANI
Guwahati: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Monday visited the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-funded Guwahati water supply project site along Brahmaputra river in Guwahati. The EAM reviewed its progress along with Japanese Ambassador to India Satoshi Suzuki.
Speaking on the occasion, Singh said: Assam has long been the bridge between India and the world to our East. The advent of colonialism and subsequent emergence of nation-states had effectively disrupted seamless connection between Eastern India and Assam and the world to our East. But this changed since 2014.
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(MENAFN - IANS) p>Guwahati, Feb 15 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar on Monday said that the government has been trying to develop infrastructure and connectivity, besides enabling the environment in Assam to attract more foreign investment, particularly the Japanese investors.
Accompanied by the Japan Ambassador to India, Satoshi Suzuki, Jaishankar said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government is very serious to develop the northeastern region and Assam with more investments. Japanese companies are familier to Assam. India-Japan partnership can really make a difference. Assam is the springboard of India s Act East Policy, he told the media.
Referring to the JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) aided projects, the Minister said that several projects worth Rs 9,000 crore to Rs 10,000 crore are almost committed or implemented or under discussions.