{"id":33102,"date":"2018-10-30T10:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33102"},"modified":"2018-10-30T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:25:29","slug":"india-a-leading-global-power-pakistan-needs-to-show-it-can-be-responsible-for-its-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-a-leading-global-power-pakistan-needs-to-show-it-can-be-responsible-for-its-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"India a leading global power, Pakistan needs to show it can be responsible for its\u00a0nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-a-leading-global-power-pakistan-needs-to-show-it-can-be-responsible-for-its-nukes-us-4990657\/\"><strong>India a leading global power, Pakistan needs to show it can be responsible for its\u00a0nukes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almost a year in office and after two bilateral meetings between Prime MinisterNarendraModi and US President Donald Trump, the US government on Tuesday marked out India\u2019s emergence as a \u201cglobal power\u201d in its first National Security Strategy \u2014 a significant upgrade in Washington\u2019s assessment of India in the last 15 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>India\u2019s importance in NSS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, in Obama administration\u2019s last NSS, India\u2019s role was described as a \u201cregional provider of security\u201d and in 2010, India was termed one of \u201c21st century centers of influence\u201d. In 2006, during George W Bush administration\u2019s NSS, it had called India as one of \u201cregional and global engines of growth\u201d and in 2002, it was viewed as a \u201cpotential great democratic power of 21st century<\/p>\n<p><strong>India\u2019s place in Trump\u2019s NSS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India was mentioned eight times in Trump\u2019s NSS, where it said: \u201cA geopolitical competition between free and repressive visions of world order is taking place in the Indo-Pacific region, which stretches from the west coast of India to the western shores of the United States, represents the most populous and economically dynamic part of the world. The US interest in a free and open Indo-Pacific extends back to the earliest days of our republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strengthening the Quadrilateral<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Putting strategic and defence partnership front and centre, the 68-page NSS document said: \u201cWe welcome India\u2019s emergence as a leading global power and stronger strategic and defence partner. We will seek to increase quadrilateral cooperation with Japan, Australia, and India.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The first quadrilateral meeting at the senior officials\u2019 level took place in Manila last month, on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summits.<\/li>\n<li>Expansion ofdefense and security cooperation with India, a Major Defense Partner of the United States, and support India\u2019s growing relationships throughout the region.<\/li>\n<li>The NSS made a special mention of India in the context of Indian Ocean security in tune with its strategic calculus on the Indo-Pacific region as outlined by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in October this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>On Pakistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Pakistan, the Trump administration\u2019s NSS said that it will \u201cpress\u201d Islamabad to intensify its counter-terrorism efforts and demonstrate that it is a \u201cresponsible steward\u201d of its nuclear assets<\/li>\n<li>United States continues to face threats from \u201ctransnational terrorists and militants operating from within Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Insist that Pakistan take decisive action against militant and terrorist groups operating from its soil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>On OBOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWe will help South Asian nations maintain their sovereignty as China increases its influence in the region,\u201d it said, in an oblique reference to Beijing\u2019s ambitious Belt and Road initiative.<\/li>\n<li>US will encourage the economic integration of Central and South Asia to promote prosperity and economic linkages that will bolster connectivity and trade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pakistan\u2019s response<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pakistan\u2019s foreign ministry responded angrily and said that NSS has made \u201ccertain unsubstantiated allegations towards Pakistan\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPakistan rejects such unfounded accusations that belie facts on ground and trivialize Pakistan\u2019s efforts for fighting terrorism and our unmatched sacrifices to promote peace and stability in the region,\u201d the Pakistan\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India a leading global power, Pakistan needs to show it can be responsible for its\u00a0nukes Context Almost a year in office and after two bilateral meetings between Prime MinisterNarendraModi and US President Donald Trump, the US government on Tuesday marked out India\u2019s emergence as a \u201cglobal power\u201d in its first National Security Strategy \u2014 a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-a-leading-global-power-pakistan-needs-to-show-it-can-be-responsible-for-its-nukes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India a leading global power, Pakistan needs to show it can be responsible for its\u00a0nukes<\/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-33102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704850145},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33102","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=33102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}