* How India is finding play in concurrent day-after-the deal plans to derisk Hormuz
* IMEC, Indo-Pacific, Quad back on agenda in post-deal world.
* Focal pt of US-Iran interlocution shifts to Qatar. Pak now acting as cover.
My column #StateofPlay
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Quad (India-US-Japan-Australia) announcements today -
Critical Minerals Framework to strengthen supply chains
Initiative on Indo-Pacific Energy Security to cooperate on energy security and resilience
Joint work to advance port infrastructure and associated activities in Fiji
"Look forward" to the convening of the Quad Leaders’ Summit
United States and India sign bilateral Critical Minerals Framework - will engage in international efforts to protect sensitive supply chains from coercive market practices and reduce our collective vulnerability to single-source monopolies.
The US is mobilizing more than $30 billion in letters of interest, investments, loans, and other support to protect supply chains.
Tenders soon to Tata, L&T and Bharat Forge for next generation fighter aircraft.
Legal and technical terms finalised.
Five AMCA prototypes to be developed at Andhra facility, Ghatak UCAV will also be made there.
@ETPolitics
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Ambassador @USAmbIndia described it as a show - and it's indeed a special one
The US celebrating 250 years at Bharat Mandapam, @SecRubio@DrSJaishankar leading
Prez Trump on a live call with Gor
AR Rehman at his best
AND The Village People
Spectacular
Rajnath Singh visit: India, South Korea to jointly develop and produce next gen weapon systems.
Laser weapons, air defence systems on radar.
@ETPolitics
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Why Xi Jinping’s call to Trump not to fall into the ‘Thucydides Trap’ has Sun Tzu written all over - to ‘subdue the enemy without fighting’. Xi gets to close an anti-China decade & reposition as a 'benign' power. Big lessons for India. My clmn #StateofPlay
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New: For the first time #TATP was used in #India, a rare mix, assembled using lab ingredients, says @NIA_India chargesheet into 2025 #RedFort blast. More details in @ETPolitics. 👇
No sanctuary across the Line of Control is safe. We will hit everything. And I think that's been made clear in the new normal that the Prime Minister stated last year, but the conditions, the timing and the method will be ours - Lt Gen Ghai.
A new defend strategic communication division is being established leveraging AI enabled tools. to counter misinformation in real time - Lt Gen Zubin Minwalla
"Forward deployment of the Indian Navy compelled Pakistani naval and air units into a defensive posture largely confined to harbors or operating close to their coastline" V Adm AN Pramod.