<span style="color: #222222;">United States and India will work together to support their shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific. This was stated by the Biden Administration's National Security Strategy, a declassified version of which was released last night. It said, as India is the world's largest democracy and a major defence partner, the US and India will work together, bilaterally and multilaterally, to support our shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific. The strategy has identified China as one of the major threats to American national security. The strategy has reaffirmed US' iron-clad commitments to its Indo-Pacific treaty allies – Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand. It said the US will continue to modernise these alliances.<br />''<br />''The US, India and several other world powers have been talking about the need to ensure a free, open and thriving Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China's rising military manoeuvring in the region.<br />''<br />''China claims nearly all of the disputed South China Sea, though Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam all claim parts of it.</span><br />