Indo-Pacific and China to be focus of high-level India-US talks

Military pact on intelligence sharing likely during Pompeo-Esper New Delhi visit

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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Kidd, left, and USS Howard are moored in Chennai in, 2017. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy)

KIRAN SHARMA, Nikkei staff writer

NEW DELHI -- India and the U.S. are working to finalize a key military pact on geospatial cooperation during high-level talks set for Tuesday, as they intensify engagement with two other members of the so-called Quad grouping -- Australia and Japan -- to challenge what they see an increasingly assertive China in the Indo-Pacific region.

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