Defending India
With challenges on two fronts, India would have to gradually raise its defence spending to deal with increasing external threats
With challenges on two fronts, India would have to gradually raise its defence spending to deal with increasing external threats
Headquartered out of Kolkata, the Eastern Command is responsible for guarding the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh and other NorthEastern states along with the Sikkim sector.
The US said it welcomes increased Indian involvement in Southeast Asia including its military presence in the South China Sea.
Depsang plains has seen two major stand-offs in 2013 and 2014, besides dozens of face-offs annually when the troops of the two countries come close while patrolling.
At the fifth Corps Commander-level meeting at Moldo on Sunday which lasted for 10 hours, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China was adamant about not moving back from its position at Finger-4 and instead, asked India to disengage further.
It is going to take a global effort to confront the Chinese Communist Party, Mike Pompeo said and mentioned the 'idea of a new alliance of democracies' for this.
Chinese ambassador to India Sun Weidong said that Beijing 'advocates win-win cooperation and opposes a zero-sum game' and added, 'Our economies are highly complementary, interwoven and interdependent.'
On Tuesday, the Chinese foreign ministry had that PLA soldiers and Indian troops on the frontline have completed disengagement in 'most locations' and situation is 'cooling down' after close communications between the two sides through military and diplomatic channels.
Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his 'courage and decisiveness', the minister said the Rafale jets were purchased only because the PM took the right decision to get them through an Inter-Governmental Agreement with France, after the long pending procurement case for them could not progress.
This is the first batch of 36 Rafale fighter jets for which India had signed an inter-governmental agreement with France in 2016 for Rs 58,000 crore.
