Two together: On India-U.S. ties and China

Ostensibly, the purpose was to conduct an annual review of ties and to wrap up the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) for Geo-spatial Cooperation, the last of the three enabling agreements which will facilitate easier interoperability between the Indian and American defence forces.

However, the timing and the tenor of the American pronouncements prior to the visit made it clear that the larger import of the visit for the Trump administration was about dealing with China.

The BECA agreement signed is an important addition to India’s defence and strategic capabilities, and it is significant that India-U.S.

interlocutors and taking ties forward, however, it is significant that the government has chosen not to enter into the comments made by Mr.

Pompeo on India’s China challenge, in keeping with New Delhi’s stated policy that the LAC tensions are a “bilateral matter”.

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