The US and India on Monday pledged deeper military interoperability and intelligence sharing as part of a bilateral push to increase their influence in the Indo-Pacific region. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin also said that China posed a threat to the international system that Washington and Delhi support.
“The People’s Republic of China is seeking to refashion the region and the international system more broadly, in ways that serve its interest,” Lloyd told reporters in a briefing that followed the “2+2” dialogue that also included his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.