{"id":2286,"date":"2017-06-24T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2017-06-24T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T20:03:11","slug":"india-shops-for-strategic-defence-industry-partner-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/24\/india-shops-for-strategic-defence-industry-partner-against-china\/","title":{"rendered":"INDIA SHOPS FOR STRATEGIC DEFENCE INDUSTRY PARTNER AGAINST CHINA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/AH-64D-Apache-Longbow_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2287\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/AH-64D-Apache-Longbow_3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/AH-64D-Apache-Longbow_3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/AH-64D-Apache-Longbow_3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/AH-64D-Apache-Longbow_3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/AH-64D-Apache-Longbow_3-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/AH-64D-Apache-Longbow_3-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/AH-64D-Apache-Longbow_3-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced Asia Times<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 ahead of President Narendra Modi\u2019s meeting with President Donald Trump on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Brig. Arun Sahgal said it was crucial that the democratic regional powers \u2014 especially Japan, Australia, the United States and India \u2014 work to together \u201cto harness China\u201d and its territorial and hegemonic ambitions to provide \u201cstability not containment.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/india-shops-strategic-defense-industry-partner-china\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/24\/india-shops-for-strategic-defence-industry-partner-against-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INDIA SHOPS FOR STRATEGIC DEFENCE INDUSTRY PARTNER AGAINST CHINA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,276,1456,641],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-china","tag-india","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}