CHINA-INDIA: GLOBAL TIMES ARTICLE WARNS INDIA AGAINST AGREEING TO US REQUEST FOR A 'STAGING POST'

Writing in the Global times on September 16, Long Xingchun, senior research fellow with the
Academy of Regional and Global Governance at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and
president of the Chengdu Institute of World Affairs, referred to Indian media reports citing US
Secretary of State Blinken's remarks to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that US is in
touch with India about using it as a staging post for aerial strikes in Afghanistan, and warned India
that the US will continue its relationship with Pakistan, that the US is trying to draw India into a
quasi-alliance and that by agreeing to it India will lose its strategic autonomy and independence.






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