Washington: India emerges as one of the central pillars of the United States’ Indo-Pacific strategy in President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy (NSS).

The document, released by the White House on Friday, lays out the administration’s strategic vision for global engagement and identifies India as a critical partner in securing a “free and open Indo-Pacific.”

The strategy notes that Washington “must continue to improve commercial (and other) relations with India to encourage New Delhi to contribute to Indo-Pacific security, including through continued quadrilateral cooperation with Australia, Japan, and the United States (‘the Quad’).”

It links India’s growing economic and military heft to the broader U.S. goal of ensuring that the region remains free of domination by any s

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