🇮🇳🇺🇸 1st tranche of US emergency assistance for India: supplies
- 1100 oxygen cylinders (+CDC ones)
- 1700 O2 concentrators
- multiple O2 generation units
- 15mn N95 masks
- re-directed manufacturing supplies for 20 mn doses of AZ vaccine
- 1mn rapid diagnostic tests
1/
2/ 🇮🇳🇺🇸
- US delivering $100mn+ worth of supplies
- add'l state, cos., NGOs, indv help
- USG assistance flights will start arriving April 29
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
4/ 🇮🇳🇺🇸
Another sign that USG now seized of the issue: from the national security adviser...
5/ Also on the first USG flight: "first tranche of a planned 20,000 treatment courses of the antiviral drug rem"desivir to help treat hospitalized patients.
6/ Indian Foreign Secretary @HarshShringla notes GoI initially expecting 3 special flights from the US over next few days...
8/ Both the flights that SecDef Austin mentioned have now landed in Delhi, where customs is fast tracking clearance for these assistance flights from various countries.

In addition, @SecBlinken & EAM @DrSJaishankar had their 2nd call in less than 2 weeks. Image

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23 Apr
1/ I'm going to elaborate a bit on this & why the relative @WHNSC @StateDept @jakejsullivan @SecBlinken silence on this publicly cld matter & potentially affect the Biden admin's other goals w/ India.

[FONOPgate - esp in comparison - was a storm in a teacup]
2/ USG (& GoI) can say the raw materials export situation is complex, & SII left a misleading impressing abt its impact before it clarified.

Regardless, what Indians will think is "we're dying & US is preventing our ability to get vaccinated"
3/ USG can say it's US job to take care of Americans first, & every country incl India has or has had export restrictions.

But Indians - & even Americans - wld hv found that more understandable a few months ago than today when US is much better off
Read 19 tweets
20 Apr
US export restrictions aren't cause of India's COVID crisis & not clear if lifting them will solve immed prob (cuz affects Novavax prod). But they will hv an adverse effect down the line on global vaccination efforts & they're already being blamed – in some cases, instrumentally. ImageImage
2/ For those who've asked re impact of US export restrictions on vaccine production, couple of articles that might be helpful
- bbc.com/news/world-asi…
- indianexpress.com/article/explai…
3/ This US export restrictions issue & India has come up in pressers. On March 12, separately NSA Jake Sullivan & FonSec Shringla were asked about it. It also came up in the WH press briefing yesterday.

Not many details other than GoI noting it'd been taken up bilaterally. ImageImageImageImage
Read 14 tweets
20 Mar
🧵 Tweeps: after bringing you "US-China relations, Mean Girls edition," I present to you....

"The Quad & China, Pride and Prejudice Edition" 1/
2/ The Quad summit did not suddenly happen. The grouping and the countries' deepening ties have developed over time...
3/ Inspiration for Quad 1.0 in 2007 came from the coordinated response to the tsunami in 2004-05. They seemed like-minded at the time...
Read 20 tweets
20 Mar
1/ Cuz of Quad, been some debate abt the extent of 🇦🇺🇮🇳🇯🇵🇺🇸 coop in 2004/Tsunami Core Group.

2005, Jt Secy (AMS) S. Jaishankar:
- TCG coordinated int'l reax
- daily 📞, 🇮🇳: FS
- initially 🇦🇺🇮🇳🇯🇵🇺🇸, then + 🇨🇦🇳🇱🇺🇳
- US-IND coord re Sri Lanka
- Indian liaisons in Thailand, PACOM
2/ I've covered Quad 1.0's origins in the Tsunami Core Group in my WOTR piece bit.ly/31062Xh

I'd also recommend reading @nilanthis et al's "Improving U.S.-India HA/DR Coordination in the Indian Ocean" cna.org/cna_files/pdf/…
3/ This was then Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, the Indian lead on the Tsunami Core Group, on the group at a press briefing on Jan. 5, 2005 (worth reading in full for the broader response effort) mea.gov.in/media-briefing…
Read 4 tweets
19 Mar
Indian readout of PM Modi-@SecDef Austin meeting
pib.gov.in/PressReleseDet…
2/ US readout of day 1 of SecDef's visit to India
defense.gov/Newsroom/Relea…
3/ Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh's statement
pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
Read 4 tweets
12 Mar
.@ryanl_hass: "Implicit in the structure of the [#Quad] agenda will be a recognition that the US & others will enjoy greater attraction & influence by delivering solutions to problems than by presenting opposition to China"
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
.@ryanl_hass: "...If the coordinated efforts of the Quad countries spurs China to up its efforts to deliver solutions to regional challenges, that’s all to the better.”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Noone believes the Quad has nothing to do w/ China; & denials are only seen as "the Quad doth protest too much."

But there is a nuance here that Ryan alludes to -- the Quad is not about containing China; it *is* in part about shaping China's behavior.
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