- The Donald Trump administration extended support to India during the border standoff with China under the US push for its Indo-Pacific strategy to check Beijing’s influence, a new White House document revealed Wednesday.
- India plays an important role in the policy, which aims to maintain America’s “strategic primacy” in the region, thereby checking China’s “influence” but “solidifying an enduring strategic partnership with India”.
- The US will also work with India and Japan “to help finance projects that enhance regional connectivity between India and countries of the region”.
US offer to help fight China at LAC aimed to ‘accelerate India’s rise as Major Defense Partner’
