“India’s Act East policy is now armed and operational: Decoding Rajnath Singh’s Vietnam visit”, First Post, May 19, 2026
“Two not-so-unrelated things are happening today. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is on a two-day visit to Hanoi. He just met his Vietnamese counterpart, General Phan Van Giang, to discuss, among other things, whether Vietnam would become the second country in Southeast Asia to acquire a BrahMos missile system.
SoAnd in Umroi, a field training node on the outskirts of Shillong in Meghalaya, the Indian Army has just opened Exercise Pragati-I, a multinational military exercise. It involves 15 nations, all from the ASEAN region. The exposition running alongside it, organised by FICCI with Eastern Command and the Army Design Bureau, will showcase Indian defence hardware to the procurement heads and defence attachés of all those countries.
India has spent 30 years talking about its Act East Policy. It is now living it…….”
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