India or abandon the consistent position of ＂non-alignment＂. Will the US-India military cooperation be closer？

　　　　　　 CCTV News:India and the United States will hold the third India-US "2+2" Ministerial Dialogue in New Delhi, India, on the 27th. In the past few days, the governments of the United States and India have frequently made high-profile announcements, and the two countries will sign the bilateral Agreement on Basic Exchanges and Cooperation in Geospatial Cooperation during the "2+2" Dialogue, marking closer military cooperation between the two countries. For details, see the report sent back by our correspondent in India earlier.

　　　　　　 US Secretary of State Pompeo and Defense Minister Esper will visit India from 26th to 27th and attend the dialogue. On the Indian side, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Foreign Minister Su Jie Sheng will lead the delegation.

　　　　　　 The India-US "2+2" dialogue mechanism began in 2018, and the first two sessions were held in New Delhi in 2018 and Washington in 2019. The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the agenda of the third dialogue will cover all bilateral, regional and global issues of common concern.

　　　　　　 The Indian Express reported on the 21st that an important part of the "2+2" dialogue between India and the United States will be the signing of the Agreement on Basic Exchange and Cooperation in Geospatial Space. It will be the fourth basic military agreement reached by the United States and India after the General Military Information Security Agreement signed in 2002, the Memorandum of Logistics Exchange Agreement signed in 2016 and the Communication Compatibility and Security Agreement signed in 2018. India’s ZeeNews website said that the signing of the new agreement will enable India to share the space geographic information of the United States and improve the accuracy of automated hardware systems and weapons such as cruises, ballistic missiles and drones.

　　　　　　 The analysis shows that the four agreements represent different levels of military cooperation, and at the fourth level, the two sides have reached the level of "quasi-allies" in military intelligence information exchange at least in theory. For this reason, Reuters used the phrase "India abandoned its ‘ Non-alignment ’ The consistent position of "this eye-catching title.

　　　　　　 The timing of this dialogue is also very delicate, which is very close to the polling day of the US general election on November 3, and this is Pompeo’s second visit to Asia and the second meeting with the Indian Foreign Minister within one month. The United States’ wooing of India is obvious. Agence France-Presse listed a number of examples of the continuous approach of the United States and India on the 21st: On the 20th, Australia announced that it would join India, the United States and Japan in a large-scale military exercise to be held next month — — "Malabard" naval exercise; Last November, the United States held its first bilateral sea, land and air exercise with India. In July this year, the US military aircraft carrier Nimitz held exercises with the Indian Navy and so on.