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IND - USA (negatives (COMCASA (vertical and horizontal penetration by the…
IND - USA
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COMCASA
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use of high-end secured communication
equipment to be installed on military platforms being sold to India
access to critical communication networks to enable better interoperability between the Indian and US militaries
legal framework for transfer of communication security equipment from US to India - interoperability between armed forces of both countries , other militaries that use US-origin systems for secure data links.
Interoperability in this case means that there will be access to encrypted and secret technologies or communications
currently commercially available and less secure communication systems on high end US defence platforms - C-130Js and P8I maritime surveillance aircraft
receive modern secure and net-enabled weapons systems - precision armament, air to air missiles, space systems and navigation systems
Hitherto India - purchase more expensive commercial communications equipment, raising the overall acquisition price of a platform
Defence and military
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2016, India and the U.S. had signed the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), allowing their militaries to replenish from the other’s bases.
Geopolitical
renamed - Indo-Pacific Command - India’s centrality to regional security - recognized in the National Security Strategy and National Defense
Strategy documents.
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U.S. has suspended $255 million in military aid to Pakistan - providing safe haven to terrorists in return for $33 billion U.S. aid over the last 15 years
non alignment - One Belt One Road plan and the China-Pakistan economic corridor running through Pakistani-occupied Kashmir
US administration granted India “Strategic Trade Authorization 1” status to facilitate sensitive high technology trade
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negatives
USA insistence - India should bring down its oil imports from Iran to ‘zero’ - USA - unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal
federal law called Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) on countries dealing with Russian defence and intelligence sectors - S-400 missile system
pressure on India - reduce bilateral trade deficit - India’s favour, by buying more American goods
COMCASA
vertical and horizontal penetration by the US of India’s most sensitive government and military communications grids, including the nuclear Strategic Forces Command - armed services against signing it
COMCASA and Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-spatial Cooperation (BECA) - remaining pacts - signing - compromising military ties with Russia + access weaponry systems
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US operators perform functions- keying for the encryption , Indian operators will not be allowed - Maintenance of these systems
US designated personnel on Indian-procured US platforms for long durations of their operational life - NOT OKAY
US - controlling the entire communications and message flow for the sake of ‘interoperability’. - Long term analysis of the message flow - revealing tactical doctrines adopted by Indian forces in combat
communication devices and links currently in use with Indian Forces cannot interact with US-provided systems - reduced ‘intraoperability’ within India’s own military.
incompatible with the rest of India’s inventory.‘overhaul’ the Indian military’s entire network to COMCASA-compliant - import of US systems
Russia’s fears of compromising its highvalue platforms - leased Akula-class nuclear-powered attack
submarine and the Su-30MKI combat aircraft
CHINA - only so much India-U.S. cooperation can do to address that challenge for India. - offshore (and declining) superpower is at best limited - counter-productive at worst
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Despite Washington’s - de-hyphenated its relations with India and Pakistan - not been able to extricate itself from the liabilities of its complex alliance with Pakistan
More than 17 years of American presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s centrality - theater of war - difficult convergence between the United States and India - dealing with terrorism emanating from Pakistan
protectionist measures - tariffs on steel and aluminium, differences over market access and intellectual property rights.
accused India of demanding billions in exchange for committing to reduce its carbon emissions - Paris climate accord
India - priority watch list in the Super 301 report for IPR ‘violations’; foreign exchange policies - under the scanner, dragged to the WTO on export subsidies.