NEW DELHI: Given China’s increasingly aggressive behavior in the Indo-Pacific since Himalayas to the South China SeaIt is more important than ever that we work with like-minded partners like India, Trump administration officials said Saturday.
Speaking about the “expansion of the Quad,” the Trump administration said there were no plans for that at this time.
“With regard to a Quad summit, there are no plans for that in the immediate short term, but anything could happen in the future,” authorities said.
The US declaration is advanced to the US secretary of state. Mike pompeo and the United States Secretary of Defense Mark Espervisit to India next week. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would travel to New Delhi for the third India-US 2 + 2 Dialogue next week on his second trip to Asia in less than a month that would also take him to the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Meanwhile, India has always maintained that the responsibility falls on China to carry out the process of disengagement and de-escalation at the friction points in the mountainous region.
Following the sixth round of military talks, the two sides announced a series of decisions including not sending more troops to the front lines, refraining from unilaterally changing the situation on the ground, and avoiding taking actions that could further complicate matters.
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