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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned Congress of the threat China poses to the Indo-Pacific in an address to a joint meeting of both houses during his state visit on Thursday.
India has been courted by the United States, across the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, as an ally in efforts to counter the Chinese Communist Party, with the country under Modi’s leadership being inducted by the U.S. into the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a naval security forum also consisting of Japan and Australia. In his speech, Modi told Congress that India has a “vision of a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific.”
“The dark clouds of coercion and confrontation are casting their shadow in the Indo-Pacific,” Modi said, referring to China. He added that the “stability of the region has become one of the central concerns of our partnership.”
Modi laid out India’s objectives for the region, which include “all nations, small and large, being free and fearless in their choices, where progress is not suffocated by an impossible burden of debt,” referring to China’s practice of offering countries massive loans to pay for Chinese-run infrastructure investment programs that, when countries are unable to repay, China refinances with conditions on use. The practice has been called “debt-trap diplomacy,” previously.
“Our vision does not seek to contain or exclude,” Modi noted, indicating that China’s growth would not be disrupted if it abided by rules, which Modi laid out as “secure seas, defined by international law, free from domination and anchored in ASEAN.” Modi’s reference to international law refers to China’s claims of the South China Sea beyond territorial limits under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, and its rejection of international legal rulings against it.
“Of this, QUAD has emerged as a major force of good for the region,” he added.
Once there was the BRICS, but then South Africa said it would arrest Putin if he entered the country, so BRICS became BRIC, and India is snuggling up to the US because of its strong conflicts with China and because Russia can no longer deliver military goods it sold to India, so there was just BRC, but China is now no longer helping Russian banks, cut off from the world's financial systems, facilitate trade, so there is just BR, for the moment, anyway, but soon there will be just R, ruled by an idiot and struggling to survive its own folly.
India has been courted by the United States, across the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, as an ally in efforts to counter the Chinese Communist Party, with the country under Modi’s leadership being inducted by the U.S. into the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a naval security forum also consisting of Japan and Australia. In his speech, Modi told Congress that India has a “vision of a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific.”
“The dark clouds of coercion and confrontation are casting their shadow in the Indo-Pacific,” Modi said, referring to China. He added that the “stability of the region has become one of the central concerns of our partnership.”
Modi laid out India’s objectives for the region, which include “all nations, small and large, being free and fearless in their choices, where progress is not suffocated by an impossible burden of debt,” referring to China’s practice of offering countries massive loans to pay for Chinese-run infrastructure investment programs that, when countries are unable to repay, China refinances with conditions on use. The practice has been called “debt-trap diplomacy,” previously.
“Our vision does not seek to contain or exclude,” Modi noted, indicating that China’s growth would not be disrupted if it abided by rules, which Modi laid out as “secure seas, defined by international law, free from domination and anchored in ASEAN.” Modi’s reference to international law refers to China’s claims of the South China Sea beyond territorial limits under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, and its rejection of international legal rulings against it.
“Of this, QUAD has emerged as a major force of good for the region,” he added.
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Once there was the BRICS, but then South Africa said it would arrest Putin if he entered the country, so BRICS became BRIC, and India is snuggling up to the US because of its strong conflicts with China and because Russia can no longer deliver military goods it sold to India, so there was just BRC, but China is now no longer helping Russian banks, cut off from the world's financial systems, facilitate trade, so there is just BR, for the moment, anyway, but soon there will be just R, ruled by an idiot and struggling to survive its own folly.
