{"id":31150,"date":"2018-10-27T12:20:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31150"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:20:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:50:27","slug":"new-zealand-seeks-clarity-on-indias-military-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-zealand-seeks-clarity-on-indias-military-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand seeks clarity on India\u2019s military ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/new-zealand-defence-chief-raises-indias-role-in-ior\/article22800681.ece\"><b>New Zealand seeks clarity on India\u2019s military ambitions<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As India expands its influence in southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean Region, New Zealand\u2019s Chief of Defence Force Lt. Gen. Tim Keating has sought clarity on a <\/span><b>probable military component to New Delhi\u2019s \u2018Act East\u2019 policy.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>New Zealand seeks clarity:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Zealand wants to understand that as India grows, how it intends to <\/span><b>grow its influence militarily both regionally and near region.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Zealand wants to know military element in \u2018Act East\u2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lt. Gen. Keating also queried the objectives of the recently resurrected <\/span><b>quadrilateral (Quad) comprising India, Australia, Japan and the U.S. <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He observed that the Quad <\/span><b>need not necessarily be a military agreement<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at this stage but four large influential nations developing a common policy framework to various opportunities and potential threats in the region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked, if New Zealand would be interested in joining the grouping at some point, Lt. Gen. Keating said that there is <\/span><b>lot of clarity to be gained about what Quad is.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand seeks clarity on India\u2019s military ambitions Context: As India expands its influence in southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean Region, New Zealand\u2019s Chief of Defence Force Lt. Gen. Tim Keating has sought clarity on a probable military component to New Delhi\u2019s \u2018Act East\u2019 policy. New Zealand seeks clarity: New Zealand wants to understand&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-zealand-seeks-clarity-on-indias-military-ambitions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Zealand seeks clarity on India\u2019s military ambitions<\/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-31150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704909116},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150","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=31150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}