LAC face-off: Xi’s show of force versus India is a tactical gift for Trump

NEW DELHI: A ruthless day of hand-to-hand battle on the India-China border last month may achieve what years of Pentagon and White Home outreach has actually had a hard time to achieve: draw the US and India better militarily.

United States strategists have actually long wanted to get India securely on America’s side, seeing the nation of 1.3 billion as a powerful counterweight to China. But while India has traditionally tried to stabilize its ties among worldwide powers, the clashes with China at 14,000- feet (4,300 meters) laid bare the possible longer-term threats of not having the United States more clearly behind it.

” My former Pentagon colleagues see the India dust-up as nothing you ‘d want but a fantastic chance for more strengthening US-India cooperation,” said Randy Schriver who stepped down as assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Affairs in December. “Our defense strategy is actually getting a boost from all this.”

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Closer ties would represent a big strategic win for Donald Trump. The American president has courted Prime Minister