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Expert in Indo-US dialogue meeting. “2 + 2”: Pompeo’s trip aims to “provoke discord”
India and the United States will hold a “2 + 2” dialogue meeting today (27), which will be attended by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense of the two countries. According to Reuters, the dialogue is expected to further strengthen the strategic relationship between India and the United States.
US Secretary of Defense Esper and Secretary of State Pompeo arrived in New Delhi on the 26th and will attend the “2 + 2” Dialogue between the Foreign Ministers of India and the United States on the 27th. The “2 + 2” dialogue mechanism between India and the US started in 2018. The first two were held in New Delhi in 2018 and in Washington in 2019. The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the the third dialogue meeting will cover all bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest.
According to the “India Express” report, an important part of the “2 + 2” Dialogue between India and the United States is the signing of the “Basic Agreement of Cooperation and Exchange on Geographical Space”. This will be the fourth basic military agreement reached by India and the United States after signing the General Agreement on Military Information Security in 2002, the Memorandum of the Logistics Exchange Agreement in 2016, and the Agreement on Security and Communications Compatibility in 2018. The Indian media said that the signing of the new agreement will allow India to share America’s geographic spatial intelligence and improve the accuracy of automated hardware systems and weapons such as ballistic missiles and drones. Some analysts believe that these four agreements represent different levels of military cooperation between the two parties. At the fourth level, India and the United States have reached the level of “quasi-ally” in terms of exchanging military intelligence information, at least in theory.
Furthermore, the timing of this dialogue meeting is also very delicate. It is very close to the voting day of the United States General Election on November 3. Pompeo visited Asia twice in a month and met with India’s foreign minister for the second time. America is courting India. The meaning is obvious.
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According to US media reports, the agreement signed in the “2 + 2” ministerial talks between the United States and India aims to strengthen cooperation between the United States and India in the Indo-Pacific region. What impact will the signing of the agreement have? in the Asia-Pacific situation? Later, Pompeo will also visit Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other countries. What was Pompeo’s intention to visit many countries in Asia during this period?
Special commenter Su Xiaohui believes that if the United States-India Agreement on Basic Geospatial Exchange and Cooperation is signed, it means that the two countries have completed the signing of three major military agreements that support the two countries, so that the two sides can improve their military security. Comprehensive and fluid communication and cooperation. This move is also conducive to the United States moving further into the security framework of the United States, Japan, Australia, and India and creating the Indo-Pacific version of “Little NATO” in the United States. While the implementation of the agreement requires further action on the part of both parties, the current diplomatic trends and the indication of the intentions of both parties are for the current United States an important benchmark for the Indo-Pacific strategy under Trump.
Su Xiaohui analyzed that another purpose of Pompeo’s trip was to sow discord and the relationship between China and the country he visited. Pompeo can discuss the issue of the South China Sea with visiting countries this time, and even provoke the direction of future negotiations on the South China Sea Code of Conduct, and create obstacles as much as possible to disturb the situation in the Sea. of South China.
