Sourced Asia Times
Three figures influential in Indian defense circles told a top US think tank this week that, while maintaining a pragmatic set of alliances, India is also looking for a strategic partner to work with its private defense contractors to significantly upgrade its capabilities to better counter China, specifically, as well as other regional threats.
The report in USNI News said the panel, which included a former Indian ambassador and retired generals, made the comments Monday at the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington — ahead of President Narendra Modi’s meeting with President Donald Trump on Sunday.
Retired Brig. Arun Sahgal said it was crucial that the democratic regional powers — especially Japan, Australia, the United States and India — work to together “to harness China” and its territorial and hegemonic ambitions to provide “stability not containment.” Ahuja noted that India and the United States have expanded their joint naval exercises, stressing anti-submarine warfare and special operations and New Delhi has sent its navy to the large Rim of the Pacific maritime exercise.
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