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Analysts say there has been “a lot of noise” but the strategic capital Washington places on India as a counterweight to growing Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific region would ensure bilateral relations do not spiral out of control and disagreements are compartmentalised.
Though Delhi has not officially reacted to the news, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in a TV interview last Saturday said his country would kill anyone who disturbed the peace in India and fled to Pakistan, in response to a question about the report’s authenticity.
The Southeast Asian nation placed no new major orders last year, according to figures released last week by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute defence think tank – despite it having an estimated annual weapons-procurement budget of more than US$1 billion.
“There are plenty of reasons to think this government won’t last long,” said Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Centre, a Washington-based think tank.
The formal social and policy event delivers on a promise by Biden to host the closely allied nation, which is key to the United States’ strategy to lower tensions around China, North Korea and other Asian security issues.