Finally, the United States and India still signed this military agreement.
According to Indian media reports, local time 27 afternoon, held in New Delhi, India, the United States and India’s foreign ministers and defense ministers “2 + 2” talks ended, the two countries signed the “geospatial cooperation basic exchange and cooperation agreement”.
What does this mean? –India has officially hitched its wagon to the United States.
Previously, India and the United States had already signed a Memorandum of Agreement on Logistics Exchange, a Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement, and now, with the addition of the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement on Geospatial Cooperation, they have basically established an ally relationship with the United States.
And look at Hiram Pompey’s high-profile “performance”, while compulsively saying “the United States and India stand together”, while exaggerating “to deal with the Chinese threat”, and India is also a look of complacency.
It is worth noting that, now from the U.S. elections but just a few days, the Modi government seems to have waited, anxious to sign an agreement with the United States, is Modi so sure that Trump will be re-elected?
Some experts say that in recent times, there has been a persistent but erroneous narrative in public opinion that US-India relations will be better under a Republican administration than under a Democratic one.
Of course, there are many factors that cause such a statement, but the main one is that public opinion is always on the personal relationship between Trump and India Modi to exaggerate, although we see the two warm embrace, handshake, but the politician’s point of action must be over-interpreted as “brotherly love”, which is inevitably a bit “distorted”.
Indeed, at the strategic level, where the Trump administration has repeatedly undermined diplomatic relations with other traditional partners and allies, the U.S.-India relationship appears to have been spared, particularly in the areas of defense and intelligence.
And Biden himself was an advocate of stronger U.S.-India ties long before they became popular.In the wake of India’s 1998 nuclear tests, Biden was one of the few advocates of dialogue with India.In 2001, Biden was also one of the first to call on the Bush administration to unilaterally waive sanctions against India. By the Obama era, Biden was even more of a mainstay in maintaining Indian relations.
In addition, in the general election to pull votes during, Biden also more than once made it clear that if he will be elected the new U.S. president, then the next will ensure the formation of a friendly partnership between the United States and India, the United States is India’s “natural partner”, the two sides in the case of consensus, the United States and India must become more intimate.
It can be seen, if Biden was elected president, in dealing with India-US relations may be better than the Trump administration to do.
Therefore, whoever will win the US elections will not hinder the development of relations between India and the US. Even if Biden wins, India-US relations will not be weakened, the Modi government naturally also sees the development of the situation, so it is unscrupulous.
However, for India such a self-confidence bursting, and has been proclaimed independent and “non-aligned”, now also is considered a tacit agreement to embark on their own to do the United States “small sidekick” road, this is indeed a little face, but, as the saying goes, there are gains and there are losses, India With the help of the U.S., India may become more and more brazen, perhaps like today’s Sino-Indian border confrontation is a “childish” issue, if India really started in South Asia to set off the “demon wind”, inevitably will not be The threat to the stability that the whole of South Asia currently retains has led to signs of a collapse of the present rare stability. At that time, it is inevitable that multi-state conflicts will become more frequent.
After all, India has a “great power dream” is not wrong, but the so-called one wrong step may lead to one wrong step, it is foreseeable that, as India’s relationship with the United States continues to strengthen, have to face is how to balance the relationship with Russia and Iran.
First of all, put other levels aside, just look at the military level, Russia attaches great importance to India’s traditional weapons export market, India also needs to rely on Russia’s military equipment to enhance the defense force. The large number of orders that India prepares every year is indeed a glutton for punishment for the US and many other countries, eager to get, after all, India’s money is still quite easy to make.
Today, the United States is clearly increasing its arms sales to India, which is bound to make Russia feel “bad”.
In general, the Modi government has been taking a middle road, trying to strike a balance between the United States and Russia, but the relationship between India and Russia is incomparable to that between the United States and India. Imagine that Russia and its neighbours have a troubled relationship, with the exception of India, which had a very good relationship during the pre-Soviet era.
The first country that came to mind to ask for help after the failure of the first three on the Indian border was Russia. India purchased 33 MiG-29 fighter jets and Su-30 fighter jets from Russia at one time, and Russia was also “righteous” enough, in addition to providing India with fighter jets, there are retrofitted versions of T-90 tanks suitable for highland operations, and promised to deliver the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system to the Indian military to use at the fastest speed.
Today, seeing India slowly falling into the “embrace” of the United States, is bound to have an impact on India-Russia relations. And India, Iran, the United States of America, this pair of “triangle” relationship is also interesting.
In the current international situation, Iran is not optimistic, the arms embargo will be lifted soon to face the United States sanctions in various aspects, and General Qasim Soleimani was killed by the United States bombing directly led to the United States and Iran relations to the freezing point. Now with India’s changing attitude towards the United States, it is bound to challenge the relationship between India and Iran, and combined with India’s lukewarm response at the beginning of the Iranian epidemic, many Iranians are beginning to wonder if India is really being honest with Iran or if it is just coveting the port of Chabahar.
In short, along with the signing of the India-US agreement, India is also considered to have officially opened a “journey of adventure”, although still do not know where the final destination is, but it is best not to “clever to be clever by mistake”.
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