NATO PLUS
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Context
- The US Congressional Committee on the Strategic Competition between the US and the Chinese Communist Party has recommended including India in Nato Plus.
What is Nato Plus?
- While the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or Nato, is a 31-member alliance, with 29 European nations, and two American, the Nato Plus, currently Nato Plus 5, is a security arrangement that brings together Nato and five aligned nations — Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel, and South Korea — to boost global defence cooperation
Significance
For the US
- Winning the strategic competition with the Chinese Communist Party and ensuring the security of Taiwan demands the United States strengthen ties with India.
For India
- Bringing India on board would facilitate seamless intelligence sharing between these countries and India would access the latest military technology without much of a time lag.
About US Congressional Committee on the Strategic Competition
- The panel, formed in January, has no authority to draft or amend laws.
- It is tasked with making recommendations to legislative committees before the end of the year.
- Its members – 13 Republican and 11 Democratic representatives – sit on various House committees with jurisdiction over the recommendations, including armed services and foreign affairs.
Concluding remarks
- India is already a key member of the Quad grouping and the thinking within the American establishment clearly seems to be in favour of taking New Delhi aboard the wider Nato-Plus platform given the increasing clout that the South Asian giant wields in a multipolar world beset with geopolitical tensions that have come to a boil with the Russia-Ukraine war.
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PRACTICE QUESTION Q) The United States has recently proposed to strengthen the Nato Plus arrangement by including India. This portrays the increasing clout that the South Asian giant wields in a multipolar world beset with geopolitical tensions. Discuss. (250 words) |