GlobalPrint: India reaching out to both Russia & US in new & interesting pragmatic foreign policy shift

On September 10, India's external affairs minister S Jaishankar held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Moscow, a meeting which was facilitated by the Russians. On the same day in Washington DC, Maldives defence minister Mariya Didi and the US pointperson in the Pentagon for South Asia signed a defence agreement, to fund train and expand America's presence in the Indian Ocean. ThePrint's National & Strategic Affairs minister Jyoti Malhotra argues that India was on board the US-Maldivian pact and that because of Maldives' geo-strategic location, India, along with Australia, Japan and the US, just expanded its footprint across the Indo-Pacific. ----more----Read her column #GlobalPrint : https://theprint.in/opinion/global-print/russia-help-on-china-and-us-on-maldives-new-indian-realism-is-underway/503010/