India: Britain and India in new defence and security partnership, PM Johnson

NEW DELHI, 23 April 2022, (TON): Britain and India agreed a new and expanded defence and security partnership, under-fire British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on a visit to New Delhi.

Johnson travelled to India as he faces criticism at home and the embarrassing prospect of a probe into whether he lied to parliament over the lockdown-breaking Partygate scandal.

India is part of the Quad grouping with the United States, Japan and Australia that is seen as a bulwark against an increasingly assertive China.

But New Delhi also has a long Cold War history of cooperation with Moscow, still its biggest military supplier, and has refused to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

Johnson said “the threats of autocratic coercion have grown even further.”

 

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