Intelligence report indicate that China has gained control of Indian territory around the Pangong tso lake,hot spring areas and Chushul and in total it has gained total of 1000 square km of Indian territory in Ladakh through systematic mobilization of troops and equipment. Recently,Indian Army captured the Black top post and uprooted all the Chinese cameras and surveillance equipment and China accused India of LAC violation.In response to this move USA deputy secretary came with a proposal to sign military pact with Japan,Australia and India to counter the Chinese aggression in LAC and South China Sea.Question here is Should India join the Military pact?For this lets analysis some facts from the past.
In 1960 when there was war of ideology going on in Afghanistan between the erstwhile Soviet Union and USA and when Russian invaded Afghanistan,USA started nurturing and funding Mujaheddin with the support of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.Pakistan was the place where these Mujaheddin were trained and it was getting funds from USA and Saudi Arabia.That was a tough time for India as the Pakistanis started deviating small amount of these funds to raise terrorists organization such as JEM,HM,LET and even if India raised the issue of Kashmir at UNSC it was always vetoed by USA.Now,these terrorists organization have become headache for Indian Army.
In 1971,Bangladesh liberation war,USA deployed its fifth fleet in Bay of Bengal to put pressure on Indian government which was countered by our alignment towards the Soviet Union.In 1949,when communist nation of China was formed and they marched towards Tibet in 1959 for the sake of annexing it,which they eventually did was never opposed by USA.Moreover,the then president of USA Richard Nixon in order to improve relations with China deployed Pakistan to act as a mediator between China and USA.In all these process India was being sidelined.
Our relations with USA started to improve when Barack Obama visited India in 2008 before that we were just having trade deals with USA,in these years USA has pulled back from USA-IRAN nuclear deal,put sanctions on buying of Russia's military equipment which has impacted INDIA as well.See,in Iran we have invested heavily on Chabahar port which is a gateway to connect to middle eastern countries and Europe but in order to appease USA we have stopped purchasing of oil from Iran which was cheaper in comparison to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela,resulting in dropping from Chabahar port. Although we still buy military equipment from Russia but how this can escape from USA eyes.
Today,USA has military pact with Japan and Philippines and these countries pay billion of dollars to USA for the protection of their sovereignty.As we know that these countries have disputed islands with China in South China Sea.Whereas,we already spend massive 70 billion dollars on our defense which is the third largest defense budget after USA and China.Thus making us capable enough to fight for our sovereign rights.
But if we look at the positive side it will help our government to invest less in our defense forces and weaponry,will help our government to increase our stagnated health and education budget.Moreover it will make USA INDIA partnership to achieve greater height but simultaneously it will also bind us to indulge in a war if anyone of the country including JAPAN and AUSTRALIA start a war with any other country.So,before taking any decision on this all facts from the past as well as future should be taken into consideration.
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