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Former Foreign Secretary of India Kanwal Sibal has given a sharp reaction to the social media post of former Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar. The matter started with the name of America’s Indo-Pacific Command, which has now sparked a new geopolitical debate. In fact, the administration of US President Donald Trump has decided to change the name of US Indo-Pacific Command to US Pacific Command. This decision reverses the decision taken in 2018, when it was named Indo-Pacific Command.
Hina Rabbani Khar reacted to this decision on social media platform X. He said that the importance and respect of any country should not be decided by what America names any of its military commands. According to him, if the pride of a country is affected just by changing the name, then it is a matter of concern. Hina Rabbani Khar said in her post that countries should decide their identity and importance by their own decisions and policies, and not by the narrative created by external forces. He also said that countries should avoid trying to prove their importance through fear or propaganda.
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Kanwal Sibal reacted to Hina Rabbani Khar’s statement.
Kanwal Sibal gave a strong reply to this statement of Hina. He termed his statement as devoid of understanding of geopolitics. Sibal said that Indo-Pacific is not just a name, but there is a big strategic and security related message behind it. According to Kanwal Sibal, the Indo-Pacific concept means linking the security of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean together. He said that China’s growing maritime influence in the Western Pacific and Japan’s security concerns strengthened this thinking. Whereas the Quad group gave it more structure.
Strategic issues should not be taken lightly – Kanwal Sibal
Kanwal Sibal said that in his first term, Trump had changed the name of US Pacific Command to US Indo-Pacific Command to give a strategic message. Its purpose was to show that America sees both the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean as a common security area. Now that the name has been changed back to US Pacific Command, it would not be correct to consider it as just a change of name.
Sibal said that it is important to understand the strategic thinking behind this decision because it can have an impact on the security and balance of power of the entire region. He also said that China has been opposing both the Indo-Pacific concept and the Quad from the beginning. In such a situation, countries like China, Japan and Australia will try to seriously understand the geopolitical impact of this change. Kanwal Sibal clearly said that such strategic issues should not be taken lightly. According to him, this is not just a matter of changing the name, but it is an important issue related to global politics, security and balance of power.
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