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The US has discussed a potential missile defence collaboration with India,a top Pentagon official has said, underlining that Washington wants tobuild a “much deeper and broader relationship” with New Delhi.
Under Secretary of Defence for Policy John Rood, however, said that it isearly to determine how far India, which already has substantial domesticmissile defence capabilities, will go regarding the defence collaboration,PTI has reported.
“We have talked to the Indians about missile defence as potentially an areaas well to collaborate on. It”s early days to determine how far that willgo,” Mr Rood said speaking at a think-tank in Washington on Thursday.by Taboolalink:Sponsored Linkslink:.linkEver Put These Foods In Your FridgeHealth & Human Researchlink
“The Indians have substantial capabilities domestically of their own andthey’ve done some development of missile defences. So the degree to whichthey’re interested in acquiring or working collaboratively with us in theUS remains to be seen,” Mr Rood said when asked about reports that India isinterested in purchasing the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systempopular as THAAD from the US.
The previous Obama administration was not very forthcoming in sharing itsadvance missile defense system with India, following which New Delhi wentahead to procure it from Russia.Promoted: In Stores
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As part of its Indo-Pacific strategy, the Trump administration now seems tobe more than inclined to let India procure its missile defense system withtalks between the two countries having already started.
Making an appearance before the prestigious Hudson Institute think-tank, MrRood said the US is certainly open to this kind of collaboration with India.
“And if that isn”t one of the areas they choose to go in, there’s quite abit of other meaty areas that we can pursue. Maybe I should have chosen aterm rather than meaty, quite a few Indians are vegetarian as you know,” MrRood said jokingly.
The US has had a very positive relationship with the Indian government, hesaid. “And we”re building a, what we hope is a much deeper and broaderrelationship with them, all the way from the presidential level with PrimeMinister (Narendra) Modi on down,” he said.
