{"id":27559,"date":"2018-10-23T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27559"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:16:20","slug":"too-close-for-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/too-close-for-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Too close for comfort?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/too-close-for-comfort\/article24910063.ece\">Too close for comfort?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Article:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mr. Happymon Jacob, has critically analysed the outcomes of India-U.S. 2+2 Dialogue meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Analysis:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Considering it as a singularly one-sided affair, Mr. Jacob criticised the 2+2 Dialogue meeting as, India was found to wriggle out of U.S. pressure without much success. The criticality can be seen in,<\/p>\n<p><u>3. Forcing India to buy American:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India is irrationally insisted to bring down its oil imports from Iran to \u2018zero\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>India is recommended to buy the American oil to make up the deficit, while the U.S. sanction fears has already doubled the U.S. oil exports to India last year.<\/li>\n<li>India could not get any waiver for importing Iranian crude oil during the Dialogue.<\/li>\n<li>The punitive provisions of Countering America\u2019s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) making it difficult for India to buy the much-needed S-400 missile system.<\/li>\n<li>The joint statement is silent on whether India\u2019s request for a \u201cone-time waiver\u201d was granted by the U.S. to buy Russian weapons at the 2+2 meeting.<\/li>\n<li>It shows clearly the U.S. intentions for India, to buy its weapons instead.<\/li>\n<li>For India with close to 60% of its weapons systems originating from Russia, this would be a huge setback.<\/li>\n<li>S. in the meetings also seen to put considerable pressure on India to reduce the bilateral trade deficit, which is in India\u2019s favour, by buying more American goods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. b) <u>Security Agreements Between India and U.S.:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>1) The agreements signed between India and the U.S includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA) :\n<ul>\n<li>In the absence of COMCASA, and the attendant high-tech equipment, the interoperability between Indian and U.S. forces is said to be severely hampered.<\/li>\n<li>S. could not provide India with such technologies such as P-8I and C-130J aircraft, due to domestic legal restrictions, unless India signed COMCASA.<\/li>\n<li>India now can access advanced defence systems and will be enabled to optimally utilise its existing U.S.-origin platforms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) (2016) : allows India and the U.S. militaries to replenish from the other\u2019s bases.<\/li>\n<li>The Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-spatial Cooperation (BECA), is yet to be negotiated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2) However, the criticality behind the COMCASA is,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is not a public document and the scope of the agreement is still unknown. Thus, U.S. needs to clarify several concerns like,\n<ul>\n<li>Issue of visits by U.S. inspectors to Indian bases to carry out inspections on the COMCASA-safeguarded equipment sold to India.<\/li>\n<li>The original End-Use Monitoring Agreement (EUMA) (2009) between India and the U.S., which ensures that, U.S. inspectors would stay away from Indian bases. This condition is unclear in COMCASA.<\/li>\n<li>nstallation of U.S. communication systems may compromise the secrecy of Indian military communication systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It will apply end-use monitoring and reconfiguration restrictions on India like that of South Korea.<\/li>\n<li>By signing COMCASA and by agreeing to reduce the purchase of Russian weapon systems (in line with CAATSA), India has implicitly accepted the extraterritorial application of U.S. law on itself.<\/li>\n<li>Since the two countries are not likely to be deployed alongside each other in a conflict situation at the end, the utility of such India-U.S. agreements should have more clarity on what it entails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5. c) <u>Balancing China in Indo-Pacific Region:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even though \u2018the India-U.S. 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue\u2019 did not explicitly mention \u2018China threat\u2019, as a major concern, the section on the Indo-Pacific region implicitly referred it.<\/li>\n<li>India-U.S. cooperation cannot do so much to address the Chinese challenge in Indo-Pacific Region.<\/li>\n<li>Being an Asian country, the defence agreements under meetings cannot resolve all Southern Asian security challenges, and India\u2019s ability to meet those challenges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>6. Way forward:<\/p>\n<p>7. The India-U.S. relationship shouldn\u2019t be allowed to define India\u2019s geopolitical character, strategic future or the limits of its other bilateral relationships.<\/p>\n<p>8. India must keep its options open and be multi-aligned, even as the U.S. forms a key part in that scheme of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too close for comfort? Article: Mr. Happymon Jacob, has critically analysed the outcomes of India-U.S. 2+2 Dialogue meeting. Important Analysis: 2. Considering it as a singularly one-sided affair, Mr. Jacob criticised the 2+2 Dialogue meeting as, India was found to wriggle out of U.S. pressure without much success. The criticality can be seen in, 3.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/too-close-for-comfort\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too close for comfort?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704770131},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}