Mike Pompeo has said in his book that India joined the Quad because of China’s ‘aggressive’ actions

Pompeo states in his book that China’s aggressive actions forced India to change its strategic position and reverse its otherwise independent foreign policy and join the four-nation quad.

Tensions in relations between India and China arose in 2020 after a deadly clash between Chinese and Indian forces in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley in June.

Since then India and China have held disengagement talks several times which have yielded no results. India has said that bilateral relations between the two countries cannot be normalized until the border skirmishes are resolved.

In his latest book ‘Never Give An Inch: Fighting for the America I Love’, which hit the market on Tuesday, Pompeo called India a “wild card” in the Quad because it was a nation founded on socialist ideology and spent the Cold War associated with it. . Neither America nor the then USSR.

Pompeo writes in his latest book, “The country (India) has always gone its own way without a true alliance system, and that is still mostly the case. But China’s actions have made India lose its strategic position over the years.” changed.” ,

Pompeo, 59, explains how the Donald Trump administration was successful in getting India into the Quad grouping.

The US, Japan, India and Australia gave shape to a long-pending proposal in 2017 to set up a Quad or Quadrilateral alliance to counter China’s aggressive behavior in the resource-rich Indo-Pacific region.

“China struck a close partnership with Pakistan – India’s arch-rival – as one of the first steps in its Belt and Road Initiative.

Pompeo writes, “In June 2020, Chinese troops killed twenty Indian soldiers in a border skirmish. That bloody incident led to the Indian public demanding a change in their country’s relations with China.”

“India banned TikTok and dozens of Chinese apps as part of its response. And a Chinese virus was killing hundreds of thousands of Indian citizens. I was sometimes asked why India had moved away from China, and my answer was That came straight from what I had heard. The Indian leadership, ‘Huh?’ Times were changing – and creating an opportunity for us to try something new and bring America and India closer than ever,” Pompeo writes.

China is embroiled in heated territorial disputes in both the South China Sea and the East China Sea.

China claims the entire South China Sea as its own.

There are counter-claims from Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei and Taiwan.

Beijing has also built and militarized several islands it controls in the region.

Both regions are said to be rich in minerals, oil and other natural resources and are also important for global trade.