The US will participate in war games with the Indian military in an area of India that is less than 62 miles away from the country’s disputed border with China, known as the Line of Actual Control (LAN).
The drills will be held from October 18-31 and will be the eighteenth iteration of annual exercises between the two militaries known as Yudh Abhyas, which is Hindi for “war practice.” They will be held in the Auli area of the Indian state of Uttarakhand in the Himalayas mountain range.
The Yudh Abhyas drills are meant to train for fighting in high altitudes. The last iteration of the exercises was held in the mountains of Alaska in October 2021.
Tensions have been high between India and China in the Himalayas since June 2020, when clashes in the Galwan Valley killed 20 Indian troops and four Chinese soldiers. Since then, China and India have been engaged in talks to reduce tensions, but they have also reinforced their militaries along the LAN.
The US has been increasing military ties with India in recent years with hopes of using New Delhi as a counter to Beijing. After the Galwan Valley clashes, the US and India signed a new military pact, known as the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA).
Under BECA, the US can share more intelligence and satellite information with India. US military leaders have said that since signing the pact, the US has been able to help India with surveillance of the Chinese military along the LAN. The intelligence could also potentially be used for Indian missile strikes in the region.
News of the drills comes not long after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made her provocative trip to Taiwan, which China responded to by launching its largest-ever military drills around the island. Beijing also responded by cutting off military talks with Washington, and tensions between the US and China continue to soar.
Why are Earth are we in India now? How does this EVER help Americans at home? So tired of us doing so much to provoke China randomly for no reason. We just barely survived a crisis that Pelosi brought upon us and they are already stirring up tensions elsewhere.
Why? Because China needs more provocations to ensure WWIII starts. Now it will be on 4 fronts? i.e. Europe, middle east, and So. and E. Asia; more to come.
India is not stupid. Nothing will come of it. The ladt thing India or China need is to internationalize the border dispute, and let US get its foothold there.
Plus, any ally of India would have Pakistan to deal with, the ultimate kipling grande game.
My, my, my! The US seems to be scurrying everywhere…
Dear China, excuse us if we fart in your general direction!
Keep poking the Panda and the Bear while inflation runs away and people at home suffer.
China is more dragon than panda.
OK, keep poking the dragon and the Bear and there will be problems!!!
I’m no expert, but this doesn’t seem to be a good idea at all. From the NATO experience in Europe, it’s like inviting the fox to help you guard your henhouse. Not any fox, but a fox you already know to support and arm your nuclear arch-enemy, Pakistan. But wait… Maybe because China would never suspect India is that stupid, it might be brilliant… I give up. My brain broke from trying to make the math work for the betterment of India.
well the pentagon gets almost a TRILLION US dollars every year.
they have to do something with all that money.
The Wash. insanity* increases every day, doesn’t it? So, how much of our money did Wash. give India for the privilege of sending our men and women to another country to provoke China? *Only seems insane to those who will not benefit from more wars.
Now it is not good for the Christian’s health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles
and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white
with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: “A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”
For all you darling China lovers on here, have you noticed, we aren’t the only ones at odds with them? If they are so peace loving, I wonder why that is? I say, why not arm Taiwan with nukes to stop China’s britches from getting too big? Best defense is a good offense.
Because we have our own insecure border and enough problems here in the 50 States that would keep any sane government occupied for at least the next 20 years, and the other reason is that the border dispute between China and India is none of our damn business. (for all you India sweethearts that love their Caste System)
You should love India, they have a dictator.
Kissinger relates this tale. Alluding to the last big border skirmish in the post WWII era, which China won, China returned conquered land to India.
Kissinger asked Mao why he did that. Mao said he did so because the last time China did it the other way, it did not work out well. Kissinger inquired, “Last time, when was that?”
Mao alluded to a clash that occurred many, many centuries ago – long before the US was born.
No matter how you slice it, China is far, far less aggressive than Murika. Of course you can always say that is a very low standard,
Maosism is dead in China, wake up. Xi is dangerous and has been hoarding chips to make weapons. He’s not doing that to store them for peace. Your referring to a country and culture, that no longer exists.
I was honestly never a big fan of Kissinger as a person against war, but as I’ve aged, seen the direction the planet is going in and finally have some sembelence of what he faced in his mission and challenges, my respect and admiration for him have grown. The world could use a statesman like HK right now because were spiraling towards nuclear war. We won’t win a conventional war vs China. It will go nuclear fast.
Just another provocation, how many more before China has had enough. How far is India and China from America? I guess the next BS statement from Wash. will be another, ‘If we don’t fight them in India, we’ll fight them on Main St. USA!’ Just keep pulling the dragon’s tail until it turns around and bites is the current policy in Wash.
Asked about the US going to East Asia to fight China, Col. Doug McGregor cited an old military maxim. “The ship’s a fool that fights a fort.”