US new strategy focuses on pressurising Pak to end support to extremists operating in India

Chennai:

US has put forth a new national security strategy last year that focuses on pressurising Pakistan to end its support to extremists operating in India, according to US defence policy expert.

Speaking during a discussion on ‘The US National Security Strategy: Implications for India’, Mark A Bucknam, a professor of US National Security Strategy and a course director at National War College in Washington DC, said that the US was against nuclear proliferation as well as war between India and Pakistan.

He also highlighted how the US-India ties has resulted in flowering of defence cooperation with Apache helicopter parts co-manufactured in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited  workshop in Hyderabad.

He said that the reset of US-India relations happened during the visit of then US President Bill Clinton to India. “The reset of US India ties is going on for a long time although there had been hiccups,” he said.

However, the US-Russia ties which were reset with Russia during Obama administration has been reduced to cooperation following the Crimea issue.

He also said that it would be only after elections in US, one would be sure whether climate change would be key focus of US foreign policy.

He also said that US does not want to counter China but was for a friendly rise of China. He said that US is for freedom of navigation in South China sea.

Interestingly, Bucknam also indirectly highlighted how US treasury after studying then Soviet Union’s weakness dependence on oil raised the oil price with the help of Saudi Arabia. “This resulted in the collapse of USSR’s economy,” he said.

Interestingly, then Ronald Regan administration in the US never wanted  the USSR to collapse. It just wanted to have trade ties and behave in a way which United States wanted, revealed the defence expert.