French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s visit to India from April 13
After the provocative actions of the Chinese Communist Party in the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea and the Sino-Indian border, Germany and France have become active in the Indo-Pacific strategy. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has been visiting India since April 13, announcing France’s participation in the Indo-Pacific Initiative (IPOI) and holding a trilateral dialogue with India and Australia at the foreign minister level to foster a Paris-New Delhi-Canberra axis to counter the increasingly provocative actions of the Chinese Communist Party. to deal with an increasingly provocative Chinese Communist Party.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is on a three-day visit to India, starting on the 13th. The visit is pivotal in diplomatic and defense matters, as France has long sought to strengthen its position in India to protect its interests from the Communist Party’s expansion in the Indo-Pacific region. Foreign Minister Le Drian’s visit, according to the French Foreign Ministry, is aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation between France and India, while promoting French Indo-Pacific strategic cooperation and enhancing dialogue in the region.
The main objective of Paris is the trilateral dialogue at the ministerial level between France, India and Australia, in particular in the framework of the “strategic partnership” that forms the Paris-New Delhi-Canberra axis in the face of the new Communist-US tensions. France, in particular, fears that the millions of square kilometers of its exclusive economic zone in its overseas territories will one day bear the brunt of the Chinese Communist Party’s plundering, and must therefore counterbalance the growing power of the Chinese Communist Party.
France has also been actively involved in the Indo-Pacific strategy in recent years, following the Chinese Communist Party’s provocative military actions in the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea and the Sino-Indian border. After his first day of talks with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Le Dérien announced France’s participation in the Indo-Pacific Initiative (IPOI), to be presented by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the East Asia Summit in 2019, to The IPOI is dedicated to the maintenance of a free and open Indo-Pacific region, the establishment of a safe, secure and stable maritime domain, and joint cooperation in trade and maritime transport.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
The Indian Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, participated in the Rasina Dialogue, an important security dialogue in the Indo-Pacific region, and held a trilateral dialogue with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne on March 14. The three foreign ministers said they are jointly planning to strengthen cooperation in areas such as maritime security in the Indo-Pacific region.
Sugarson said that the next time the three countries will discuss similar topics to the Quadripartite Security Dialogue (QUAD), an informal alliance between the United States, India, Japan and Australia to counter an increasingly aggressive Chinese Communist Party. He also clarified that the analogy of the Indo-Pacific Quadripartite to a regional military alliance such as Asia’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a mind game played by other countries, alluding to the implausibility of the Chinese Communist Party’s allegations. He said, “The use of words like NATO in Asia is a game someone is playing to influence hearts and minds, and this NATO mentality has never been India’s.”
Ren Guoqiang, spokesman for the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Defense, last month spoke out against the Indo-Pacific quartet, accusing the group of Cold War thinking.
Su Jaisheng stressed that the Indo-Pacific is somehow a return to history, which reflects the contemporary world, and certainly goes beyond the Cold War rather than reinforcing it. He hoped that all could deal with contemporary diplomatic issues in a contemporary manner.
Australian Foreign Minister Payne noted that the three countries came together in the hope of having an open, resilient and inclusive Indo-Pacific cooperation, which would have the opportunity to coordinate to find solutions to the problems they face, both short and long-term strategic issues.
For his part, Le Drian said, “India, France and Australia have the will to work together, not just because we get along well, but because we have common interests and concerns. We are democracies and we abide by the rule of law.” This is seen by outsiders as an allusion to the Chinese Communist Party’s undemocratic and non-observance of the rule of law.
France, which in recent years has branded itself as a major security and defense player in the Indo-Pacific region, has vigorously stepped up multilateral diplomacy and is one of the most active European countries, recently leading military exercises in the Bay of Bengal with the countries of the Quadripartite Security Dialogue.
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