QUAD

Rebuff US Pressures

The Modi government must now realise the perils of joining a strategic military alliance with the USA like the QUAD that opened the floodgates for blackmail and pressures. The government of India must uphold the supreme national interest of India in this crisis and not capitulate to such US pressures.

US Should Lift Export Ban

The Modi government, which sets much store on the Quad alliance, must ensure that the Biden Administration keeps to its committed word and immediately ensure supply of essential vaccine material to India. This is the least that must be done when India is facing vaccine shortage in the face of an unprecedented surge of Covid infections.