The development came on a day Rajnath Singh and his American counterpart Lloyd Austin held wide-ranging talks at Pentagon to deepen the bilateral relationship.
On Monday, the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting is expected to assess work being done by working groups in a wide range of areas and discuss arrangements for holding the Quad Leaders Summit, which will be hosted by India this year
Blinken’s visit may be another way of signalling to China that it shouldn’t exploit any crisis to escalate new ones, at least until the US elections are over
US Secretary of the State Antony Blinken faces the wrath of both the left and right during and after the Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on May 21.