Now we have to watch Pakistan.
Posted on 07/03/2005 10:50:25 AM PDT by nickcarraway
India has virtually agreed to joint policing of international waters with the United States in the 10-year defence agreement signed between the two governments in Washington.
The agreement is being seen as a "back-door entry" for India into the US-led 11-nation Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) that is now claiming the right to stop and search ships not merely in coastal waters, but also on international waters, merely on the suspicion that a vessel could be carrying missile shipments.
India, which has opened its waters over the past few years to the United States, is now readying for a more substantive "engagement" that has been legitimised in the defence agreement as conducting joint exercises, collaborating in multinational operations, strengthening the militaries' capabilities to defeat terrorism and enhancing capabilities to combat proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
The 11 nations in the PSI are the US, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Australia, Japan, Poland and the Netherlands. Asian and African countries have kept out of the initiative so far.
The provisions of the PSI allow the member nations to stop and search air, sea and land cargo based on mere suspicion that these could be linked to WMDs. Such searches can be conducted in sovereign waters and airspace.
The proposal has evoked sharp reactions from the Indian strategic establishment with experts pointing out that the deployment of the Indian Navy and Air Force for PSI interdiction activities carries a major security and strategic risk for the country. It has also been pointed out that the intervention will not be accepted by major countries in Asia, including China, and India as a participant would stand the risk of isolation in her own neighbourhood.
The Americans have, in the meanwhile, lured India into joint cooperation with its Navy.
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'India surrenders ocean to the US'
Will we now start to call it the 'American Ocean'?
Personally, taking the Atlantic or Pacific first would seem to make more sense
Just another commie writer who is jealous of improving indo - US ties
My Gosh, what COULD they have been thinking?!!!
Hint, maybe WMD are more dangerous than the US.
All your Ocean belong to us
Isolated by China, eh ? is that supposed to bad ?
Now we have to watch Pakistan.
yep....
I think Pakistan will fall into line. WE don't hate them and they know this....
Ehhh, I don't know how much I'd want to depend on South Korea right now.
Most Indians like me are excited about this new relationship with the US. We want to shed the baggage of nehru and gandhi and their socialism and get on with our lives. We love US and want India to be like that at some point.
Its only the older people and those with a commie/socialist ideology who hate US. And the writer of this article is represents that minority.
Damn straight! Go Navy!
We're going to interdict and conduct searches of flying aircraft? That's pretty neat!
That's why I said "perhaps." For the life of me, I can't understand why South Korea would be hostile to us.
The Indian ocean belongs to India...US is welcome to visit now and then...China is welcome to watch..from a distance... ;)
Obviously she is a commie...a fast dwindling species in India..
Actually, since a great amount of tech outsourcing of US operations has been going to India.. this seems a sound concept by the US. Patrolling the waters. In another "fer instance" one can, by studying the US 2000 election by county map -- see that most blue zones are located on or near anything "water".
Your post is 'blam' -- on target!
Good post. Yours jibes perfectly with the Indians I know here in the US. :)
It would be in US' interest to help India build a blue water navy.......give us the money , the technology , the trade , and we will take care of the Chinese for you.. ;)
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