{"id":74700,"date":"2019-11-18T10:59:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=74700"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:59:33","slug":"rajnath-holds-talks-with-us-defence-secretary-on-indo-pacific-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rajnath-holds-talks-with-us-defence-secretary-on-indo-pacific-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajnath holds talks with US Defence Secretary on Indo-Pacific situation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held talks with US Defence Secretary Mark T Esper in Bangkok on Sunday on a range of issues of strategic importance, including situation in the Indo-Pacific region and ways to further bolster bilateral security cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting took place on the sidelines of the ASEAN Defence Ministers\u2019 Meeting-Plus , a platform comprising ASEAN and its eight dialogue partners, including India, officials said here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Defence Minister also held a separate meeting with his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono with a focus on adding further momentum to bilateral defence cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meeting with Esper, Singh reaffirmed New Delhi\u2019s vision for a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific region based on a rules-based order and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has been fast expanding military and economic influence in the Indo-Pacific region, triggering concern in various countries of the region and beyond.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held talks with US Defence Secretary Mark T Esper in Bangkok on Sunday on a range of issues of strategic importance, including situation in the Indo-Pacific region and ways to further bolster bilateral security cooperation. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the ASEAN Defence Ministers\u2019 Meeting-Plus , a platform [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74702,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74700\/revisions\/74702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}