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Centre for Air Power Studies - 09 May 2022 ASSESSING DELHI-LONDON SECURITY PARTNERSHIP

9 May 2022

Johnson described the visit – his first to India as Prime Minister – as an effort to advance their bilateral partnership for “peace and prosperity” in the face of threats from autocratic states.² Held at a geopolitically critical moment and the 75th anniversary of India-UK diplomatic relations, the trip came as an indication that India – a major economic power and the world’s largest democracy – i. [...] In the long-term, India and the UK can look to build a partnership in defence technology that brings together British expertise and Indian manufacturing capabilities for the production and export of critical equipment to states in the Indo-Pacific. [...] The UK has a limited physical presence in the Indo-Pacific region; in fact, its physical connection is almost entirely built upon its partnerships in the region and the handful of military bases and island territories within the Indian Ocean Region. [...] Britain’s New Delhi and London are commitment to work with India in building fighter clearly moving in the right jets alone commits the country to not only New Delhi direction to build a new but the Indo-Pacific concept at large, for decades to and expanded defence and come. [...] India and the UK must look to cement will and momentum for such a a middle power-driven security partnership that is partnership are sustained and robust and capable of navigating the tense geopolitics cultivated.
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