Wahyu Dwi Anggoro
IDXChannel - United States (US) Secretary of Defense Lloyd J Austin will depart next week for a trip to India, South Korea, and Indonesia.
As part of his ninth official visit to the Indo-Pacific region, Secretary Austin will travel to India to meet with his counterpart, Minster of Defense Rajnath Singh, to discuss expanding defense industrial cooperation, enhancing interoperability, and advancing innovation through the India-US Defense Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X).
The Secretary and Minister Singh will also participate in the fifth 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue alongside Secretary of State Antony J Blinken and Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar.
"Following the Ministerial, Secretaries Blinken and Austin will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi," the US Department of Defense said in a media release on Thursday (2/11/2023).
Secretary Austin will then travel to South Korea for meetings with Minister of National Defense Shin Wonsik and other senior Korean leaders. He will also meet with US military commanders and service members on the Korean Peninsula, reaffirming the ironclad US extended deterrence commitment to South Korea.
