Analysing the Fifth Indo-US 2+2 Ministerial
As a healthy outcome, we recall a continuous persistence in these parlays reinforcing the notion of a rules based international order, resilience and global peace. With the changing geopolitical and geoeconomics landscape of the recent past, the Indo-Pacific’s increasing salience covered a noteworthy aspect of the meeting, hinting at furthering defence collaborations in the arena, pivoting around the Quad’s vitality and global good. In the area of trade, the Indo Pacific Economic Policy Framework too is moving forward.
On foreign policy, we have to deal with various cantankerous issues such as Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas conflicts, and the US respects India’s strategic autonomy.
Being a geostrategic locus of global pre-eminence, this crucial conduit of economic developments is also a theatre of disputes, conflicts, and competition for an imperative influence by both regional as well as extra regional players, demanding increasing attention. In this article, we focus on the recent dialogue between India and the USA.
The essence of the annual dialogue to envision a multilateral structure, premised upon the recently held meeting between the US President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June, 2023, that culled out mutual contributions for maintaining a ‘free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific’.
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