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01/11/22 13:07 PM IST

US New National Security Strategy Has Been Released

In News 
  • The United States has launched its National Security Strategy (NSS).
  • All U.S. Presidents are mandated by the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 to bring out their NSS and to communicate the executive’s vision of national security to the legislative.
About NSS 
  • The NSS takes both a long-term and an immediate view of the China threat and the challenges emerging from Beijing.
  • While it seeks to outline a joint strategy to tackle external challenges for the U.S. by out-competing China and constraining Russia, it is asymmetrically tilted in its focus on threats from China despite an active war in which Russia is involved.
  • The Biden administration places competition with China at the centre of its decadal outlook, which is increasingly global in character and most pronounced in the Indo-Pacific region across a range of domains such as the economy, technology, development, security, global governance and diplomacy.
  • The NSS is clear about the opposition to any unilateral change to Taiwan’s status by China, portending a contested Indo-Pacific region between China on one hand and a host of democratic partners on the other.
India as Long-Term Partner
  • The Biden administration’s NSS identifies India as both a bilateral and multilateral partner in the Indo-Pacific, but, more importantly, its status as the largest democracy and a major defence partner.
  • As India looks to diversify and indigenise its defence needs in the medium and long term, the NSS lays out the space for partnership between India and the U.S.
  • India’s partnership in the Indo-Pacific has been assessed as critical in building a “latticework of strong, resilient and mutually reinforcing relationships” through regional partnerships such as the Quad (India, Australia, Japan, the U.S.) and the I2U2 (India, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the U.S).

Biden’s NSS serves three broad purposes
  • Strategic vision: It completes the strategic vision by the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance released in March 2021
  • Seeks to provide further clarity and direction on various policy verticals by the Biden administration
  • Marks the end of political expectations about presidential doctrines in the U.S.
Source- Indian Express 

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