SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

APLN member Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan was quoted in South China Morning Post, where she commented on India-US defence deals, India-Russia ties and the China factor. Read the original post here.

“For a long time, strategic thinkers have been arguing that for India to change its foreign policy choices, the West would have to make a conscious decision to share defence technologies with India so it doesn’t rely on Russia,” said Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, director of the Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Delhi-based think tank Observer Research Foundation.

“It feels like the US is also coming to the same realisation,” she added.

Image: India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh (left) and US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin after their meeting in Delhi on June 5. Photo: Indian Ministry of Defence via AFP