India and France held a <\/span>strategic dialogue meeting. It was co-chaired by India\u2019s National Security Advisor (NSA) and the Diplomatic Advisor to the French President.<\/span><\/p>\n Strengthen Defence and Security Partnership: <\/b>India and France have agreed to strengthen defence and security partnership by<\/span> enhancing intelligence and information sharing<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n Indo-Pacific Region<\/b>: France stressed its continuing commitment to the Indo-Pacific region as a <\/span>resident power <\/b>and partnership with India as a \u201cmajor pillar\u201d of its strategy for the region.<\/span><\/p>\n Note<\/b>: A <\/span>resident power is one that does not own territory or have a territorial presence in a particular region of the world, but is nevertheless a force to be reckoned with in the international politics of that region.<\/span><\/p>\n The assertion by France to deepen cooperation with India in the Indo-Pacific came nearly two months after the <\/span>AUKUS alliance<\/span><\/a> by Australia, the UK, and the US.<\/span><\/p>\n Under the alliance, Australia will get technology from the US and UK to build nuclear-powered submarines.<\/span><\/p>\n The alliance is also seen as an effort to counter China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n However, France reacted angrily to the formation of the new alliance as it resulted in France effectively losing a multi-billion dollar deal to build 12 conventional submarines for Australia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>India, France agree to expand partnership in defence, security<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> \u201cIndian Express\u201d on 8th November 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? India and France held a strategic dialogue meeting. It was co-chaired by India\u2019s National Security Advisor (NSA) and the Diplomatic Advisor to the French President. What are the key highlights of the meeting? Strengthen Defence and Security Partnership: India and France have agreed to strengthen defence and security partnership by enhancing… Continue reading India, France agree to expand partnership in defence, security<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704945549},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are the key highlights of the meeting?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Significance of India-France meeting:<\/b><\/h5>\n