India closing missile gap with China and US appreciates

It is a good news that India closing missile gap with China.The lake of US censure of India’s latest missile test prove with certainty that the Washington praises Indian’s need to meet the emerging strategic challenge posed by rising China according to two US scholars. It also show “US is comfortable with Indian progress in the nuclear and missile filed” , Lisa Curtis , senior research fellow for South Asia and Baker Spring research fellow in National Security Policy , at the Heritage Foundation , a conservative think tank said in a commentary.

“India’s successful test to the Agni-V, a nuclear able long range and high power  missile , is a major step forward for New Delhi in gaining nuclear deterrence against regional rival China, “ they said calling it as “telling that no country has   criticized India’s missile test.

Curtis and Spring also noted that the US State Department simply called on all nuclear capable states to exercise restraint and underlined Indian’s solid record on non-proliferation and its cooperation with the international community on nuclear issue.

“This is a far cry from Washington’s position on Indian ballistic missile development throughout the 1999s, when Washington pressured New Delhi to modify its nuclear and missile posture”, they dais suggesting “the new US stance also demonstrates a welcome evaluation in US non-proliferation policy”.

“The US change in position with regard to Indian missile capabilities demonstrates how far the US-India relationship has evolved over the last decade,” Curtis and Spring said.

Now the US views India as a strategic partner with growing economic and political clout that will contribute to promoting security and stability in Asia.