US declassifies its strategy to use India against China

[Oldman1]

Aware of the weakling? Since it is on our target list why assume we don't know geography? Americans are known to be poorly educated in that subject. East Asian intelligence are among the highest, you worry about America first.

Based on a so called weakling with nuclear weapons, you still don't know your own geography.

 

[bshifter]

Based on a so called weakling with nuclear weapons, you still don't know your own geography.

To say the average Americans don't know geography is an understatement. We know India is the only poor and silly country the US can only beg to help America. US not so mighty that it needs to beg India says it all.

 

[Baibars_1260]

But US failed miserably, India is just a useful fool for US, but US itself now is collapsing in all fronts.

There have been other instances:

-South Vietnam was backed against China
- Laos was backed against China

- Hong Kong and Macao was backed against China,
- Taiwan is being backed against China
-Vietnam is being backed against China.
How many will be "backed" ?

 

[Cheehg]

USA Said to India: if you help me I will help you become next China. You know we made China rich, right?
India thinks: right. Let's do it.
June 2020. We know what happened.

 

[IndiaIsBad]

This US is so bad. Always pushing countries against China. Otherwise China was so good to India. In fact Chinese intruded in 1962 to help India.

 

[Surya 1]

A strong India would act as ‘counterbalance’ to China, says declassified U.S. document
Sriram Lakshman
WASHINGTON, JANUARY 13, 2021 12:07 IST
UPDATED: JANUARY 13, 2021 14:11 IST
The 10-page document outlines objectives and strategies with regard to China, North Korea, India and other countries in the Indo-Pacific region

With days to go before its end, the Trump administration has declassified a sensitive document on the U.S. strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific’ from 2018. The 10-page document — which does not come with any surprises — outlines objectives and strategies with regard to China, North Korea, India and other countries in the Indo-Pacific region.

Also read: China opposes India-Taiwan trade ties
Maintaining “U.S. strategic primacy” in the region and promoting a “liberal economic order” while stopping China from establishing “illiberal spheres of influence” is the U.S.’s first national security challenge as per the document. The other two challenges are ensuring that North Korea does not threaten the U.S. and advancing U.S. economic leadership globally while pushing “fair and reciprocal” trade.
With regard to India, one of the ‘desired end states’ of the U.S.’s strategy is for the U.S. to be India’s preferred partner on security issues and for the two countries to “cooperate to preserve maritime security and counter Chinese influence” in South Asia, Southeast Asia and other regions of “mutual concern”. Several sentences in the document — including in sections on India — have been redacted.

The U.S. aims to help India become a net security provider in the region, solidify a lasting strategic partnership with India “underpinned by a strong Indian military able to effectively collaborate with” the U.S and its regional partners. These objectives it plans to achieve via enhanced defence cooperation and interoperability; working with India “toward domestic economic reform” and greater leadership roles for India in the East Asia Summit and ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus.

India-China border dispute
Consequently, the U.S.’s to-do list has on it offers of support to India via military, diplomatic and intelligence channels “to help address continental challenges such as the border dispute with China and access to water, including the Brahmaputra and other rivers facing diversion by China."
Last year, India and China were engaged in their deadliest border dispute in decades along the Line of Actual Control, killing 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese soldiers. Just last week U.S. Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster had said that the U.S. cooperated with India to counter China’s “aggressive” actions along the LAC, but did not provide details of this cooperation.
The U.S. also seeks to bolster common principles, including the peaceful resolution of disputes and the transparent infrastructure-debt practices (a reference to alternatives to financing by China’s Belt Road Initiative which has led to untenable debt positions in borrowing countries), as per the Indo Pacific strategy.
‘Act East’ policy
The U.S. aims to support India’s “Act East” policy and “its aspiration to be a leading global power, highlighting its compatibility with the U.S., Japanese and Australian vision” of the Indo-Pacific, as per the document.
“A strong India, in cooperation with like-minded countries, would act as a counterbalance to China,” is one of the underlying assumptions of the strategy, which expects Chinese military, economic and diplomatic influence will continue to increase in the short term.
“China aims to dissolve U.S. alliances and partnerships across the region. China will exploit vacuums and opportunities created by these diminished bonds,” the document says.
On Russia, it says the country will “remain a marginal player” in the region relative to the U.S., China and India. The U.S. expects that India and Japan will increase defence investment due to security competition driven by shifting regional power balances.
On North Korea, a stated U.S. objective is to, “Convince the Kim regime that the only path to its survival is to relinquish its nuclear weapons.” While U.S. President Donald Trump met with North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un three times, talks collapsed over disagreements on the extent of sanctions relief for Pyongyang and disarmament. Critics have argued that North Korea is more dangerous now due to Mr. Trump’s approach than it was four years ago.
The official reason for the early declassification of the document, 20 years ahead of time, was “ to communicate to the American people and to our allies and partners, the enduring commitment of the United States to keeping the Indo-Pacific region free and open long into the future,” said national Security Advisor Robert C O’ Brien in a covering note that accompanied the document.
“Frankly, the early declassification doesn’t tie the Biden administration's hands,” Ankit Panda, a senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told The Hindu, in response to a question on the impact of the declassification on the next administration’s communication about the strategy. “I suspect it's an attempt by some in the outgoing administration to make their mark on policy clear and public, but it's not a document that speaks to tremendous strategic foresight,” he said.
“There’s a considerable bit of dissonance across this document, however, in its professed goal of spreading American and liberal values and the complete lack of any language on human rights. That again isn’t particularly surprising given how the administration has gone about things,” Mr. Panda wrote in a post analysing the document.
The document was originally classified by Matt Pottinger, then Senior Director for Asia at the National Security Council. Mr. Pottinger, the key White House strategist on China, resigned from the post of Deputy NSA last week following the attack on the U.S. Capitol by an angry mob of Trump supporters.

A strong India would act as ‘counterbalance’ to China, says declassified U.S. document

The 10-page document outlines objectives and strategies with regard to China, North Korea, India and other countries in the Indo-Pacific region

www.thehindu.com

China has outlived it's good time. It has lost its cheap labour advantage. It is incapable of entering into new development stage based on research, hi Technologies and innovation. It will get marginalized like Russia in coming two decades. Dictator Xi is contributing a lot in faster downfall of China.

 

[applesauce]

This US is so bad. Always pushing countries against China. Otherwise China was so good to India. In fact Chinese intruded in 1962 to help India.

china preempt india in 62' because indian were literally on undisputed chinese territory(beyond disputed land) after singing about brotherhood while attempting to muscle china out of the disputed lands

 

[IndiaIsBad]

china preempt india in 62' because indian were literally on undisputed chinese territory(beyond disputed land) after singing about brotherhood while attempting to muscle china out of the disputed lands

Yes of course, China is always right. And thats why India loves China. Its that villain US trying to drive a wedge between India and China.

 

[vi-va]

A lame duck India as it's today is good for all neighbors around India, such as Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Maldives.

 

[xuxu1457]

The report now looks like a joke，Just making trouble for Biden.
to many wishful thinking, such as Japan and South Korea joining forces with the United States against China，The contradiction between Japan and South Korea is much greater than that between Japan and China. China, Japan and South Korea are basically very secular, not so much ideological things.

India's withdrawal from the ASEAN-led RCEP has further deepened the economic integration of ASEAN and China, Japan and South Korea. Without a common economic interest base, India can hardly rely on the strength of ASEAN.

The conflict between China and India is not as big as the media portrays. After all, there's been no shooting for more than 50 years.

 

[Oldman1]

To say the average Americans don't know geography is an understatement. We know India is the only poor and silly country the US can only beg to help America. US not so mighty that it needs to beg India says it all.

Even China needs allies, and thats saying something what its trying to do right now, right now you trying to get allies far overseas. Its options are limited close to home so far with South Korea, Japan, Philippines, etc. North Korea would be the only one besides Russia.

 

[Feng Leng]

LOL you know the Americans are desperate when they hope the open air enthusiasts in India will help them fight China

 

[fitpOsitive]

It paints a cold picture of how the US seeks to use its South-East Asian allies to contend with China and North Korea.
The United States government has declassified its 2018 Indo-Pacific strategy for unknown reasons, although it was initially set to be released to the public at the end of 2042. Over the last three years, this National Security Council strategy has guided American manoeuvres and policy in a region extending from the United State’s Pacific Coast all the way to India. At its heart, the strategy reveals a deep concern with China’s rising influence in the Western and Central Pacific. It also highlights plans to deal with an increasingly belligerent North Korea, while seeking to strengthen India to counter Chinese military power.

The strategy was initially devised throughout 2017, going on to be approved and enforced by President Donald Trump in 2018 shortly after the US National Defense Strategy was finalised.

US, Indian, and Japanese carriers sailing together in Malabar exercise, 2017. (US Navy)
While the strategy’s actual authors are not credited in the document, much of the document accurately reflects the White House’s actions in the region for the last three years. Most interestingly, it summarizes US interests in the region, as seen in the following segment:

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The strategy goes on to share rare insights into how the US perceives its opponents and allies in the region, specifically India, China and North Korea.

China enjoys growing dominance in the Indo-Pacific, something US strategists continue to take note of. Specifically, this has led to a recognition that China is the United State’s primary adversary and strategic opponent in the area.

The strategy dives into how to maintain the US strategic edge “and promote a liberal economic order while preventing China from establishing new, illiberal spheres of influence, and cultivating areas of cooperation to promote regional peace and prosperity.” It also emphasizes that “China will circumvent international rules and norms to gain an advantage” in a strategic face-off between the two powers.

While the strategy doesn’t specifically mention the paths China follows to further its dominance in the region, it does cite China’s increasing use of “digital surveillance, information controls, and influence operations [that] will damage U.S. efforts to promote our values and national interests,” not only in the Indo-Pacific but also within the Western hemisphere itself.

Parallel to the strategy, the US government and military have consistently sounded alarms over China’s expanding nuclear arsenal, long-range ballistic and cruise missile capabilities, and the resurgence of its naval fleet.

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In 2020, an official Chinese Ministry of Defense video depicted an attack on a US airbase on the Western Pacific island of Guam.

So how does the US plan to counter China?

Broadly speaking, it aims to build US capabilities until they are “capable of, but not limited to” denying China control of the air and the sea in the “first island chain”, referring to a string of Pacific islands surrounding China that include Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam. China claims most of these waters. Second, it emphasizes the strategy emphasizes the need to defend the first island chain, and dominate all areas outside it.

While the document does not mention the South China sea dispute, it reflects a concern over China’s claims there and in other parts of the Western Pacific.

The South China Sea and Western Pacific as a whole have seen a tremendous increase in Chinese military activity, but also activities by the US and its allies in the region.

Caption: In 2020, and for the first time since 2014, the US fielded two Nimitz class aircraft carriers and elements of their strike groups together in the South China Sea (United States Navy)
The strategy espoused by the Trump administration has arguably led to the worst deterioration in US-China ties in recent history, triggering an ongoing trade war, and US commitment to defence of Taiwan by approving large defence deals with the island nation. On top of Trump blaming China for the covid-19 global pandemic and accusing it of mismanaging the outbreak, Trump has fostered deeper ties with Taiwan that go beyond arms deals and include military capacity building and reinforced diplomatic ties.

Nuke kid on the block

After identifying China as a primary strategic concern, the strategy turns its attention to North Korea. Threatened by its multiple missile launches in 2017 including one missile that flew over Japan, the strategy acknowledges the rapid technological advances North Korea realized in its missile technology.


The strategy distinctly states that North Korea’s “stated intention of subjugating South Korea,” taken with its nuclear missiles, “pose a grave threat to the US . . . and our allies.”

But unacknowledged by the strategy was Trump’s aggressive stance against North Korea in 2017 well before the strategy was approved. At one point, this included an implicit threat to use nuclear weapons on North Korea. The strategy in question was formed as US-North Korea ties moved towards a pause leading to a meeting between Kim Jong Un and US President Trump, and an easing of ties between North and South Korea.

North Korea State News ()
The 2018 document also tactically identifies Japan and South Korea as partners that can play a key role in fulfilling US objectives pertaining to North Korea. Specifically, these are summarized as not only removing its nuclear capability, but eliminating cyber and biological weapons from its arsenal. How? By helping both South Korea and Japan gain access to “advanced military capabilities”, and strengthening their bilateral ties. Other more specific details and initiatives are redacted.

But at the center of the US approach to North Korea is convincing its regime “that the only path to its survival is to relinquish its nuclear weapons.” To achieve this, the strategy opts for putting North Korea under economic, diplomatic, military, and legal pressure. Negotiations are presented as a last resort.

This also reflects the approach taken by Bill Burns, President-elect Biden’s nominee for next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Allied India

India features prominently in US strategic plans for the region. Specifically, the strategy seeks to build a “quadrilateral security framework with India, Japan, Australia” and the US. The four-cornered strategy wants to use “a strong India” to “counterbalance China.”

This comes after pointing out that India is already able to “counter border provocations by China.” It should be noted that the strategy was passed before India-China skirmishes in the Doklam region.

Interestingly, the strategy makes no mention of Pakistan at all in spite of its close ties to China. It further defines a key need to “accelerate India’s rise and capacity to serve as a net provider of security and Major Defense Partner; solidify an enduring strategic partnership with India underpinned by a strong Indian military able to effectively collaborate with the United States and our partners in the region to address shared interests.”

India’s aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya and a US guided-missile destroyer carrying out joint-maneuvers in the Malabar 2020 exercise held in the Indian Ocean. (US Navy)
Reflecting this, the US Navy has advocated creating a new naval command exclusively for the Indian Ocean and close-by areas of the pacific. With the expiration of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the US has also assessed different locations in South East Asia to position long-range missile forces that would be able to counter China’s own strategic missiles.

Meanwhile, India continues to enjoy large defence procurements from the US, including the F-21 fighter jet. Others have indicated this could be a form of induction to bring India into the F-35 stealth fighter program.

Dreams to dust

In spite of its bold efforts, much of the strategy’s ambitious objectives have yet to be fulfilled. Chinese power remains on the rise in the region. More critically, efforts to remove nuclear weapons from North Korea have also failed.

But that’s not to say that the strategy went entirely unfulfilled. The US Navy is set to create a new fleet to cover the Western Pacific. ‘Freedom of Navigation’ deployments to the region are increasing, along with the major US efforts to arm Taiwan.

While the strategy reflects Trump’s legacy, it’s approach may still shape coming US strategy as Biden’s new administration seeks to contend with China and North Korea.

US declassifies its strategy to use India against China

It paints a cold picture of how the US seeks to use its South-East Asian allies to contend with China and North Korea.

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I don't understand one thing. Europe and USA is giving everything to China (except for few sophisticated things). These both regions are directly responsible for the rise of China.
On the other side, India is also getting same treatment. Both China and India are serving Western interests. Whole of the Asia is being used. I am a technology guy, and in a seminar I heard a white guy saying: Hey guys, don't worry. The whole development work has shifted towards Pakistan and India, you don't have to work. All you need to do is to copy and paste and earn millions.

And then I read such articles that West using India against China.

While the true statement should be : West is using everyone, be it China, Pakistan, India or someone else.
All are getting used by Firangis.

 

[shanlung]

China was wanting India as a long term economic partner, that was the purpose of the Wuhan and Malayalam meetings.

Modi decided to forsake this and join on the anti-China bandwagon and the Quad because it felt like it had an opportunity to benefit from the largesse of the US. So that's what happened. We will see what transpires under the Biden administration.

What largesse of Murica?
When Murica is going more and more bankrupted with each passing month if not week?



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[Thorough Pro]

we had short-sighted and self-centred criminals masquerading as leaders.

You think India don't know that ? She already know. And is playing along to get benefits in term of diplomacy, soft power, economic gains, military connections and supplies etc. India was successful in using H-1b to increase its Indian diaspora in the United state. That means influence.

US is using India and India is using US. Too bad US knew how to use us but did not know how to use US that's why they got everything they needed and we are stuck in this war.