As has been shown over the QE, China will issue threats to those who sail too close to the heavily armed islands that it has expanded in recent years, despite international protests, to the point where they control the area.

The administration claims the teachers were breaking barricades, but teachers maintain that their protest was peaceful.

“It is a partial relief. But real justice will only be done when UP govt compensates the parents of the children who died due to the oxygen shortage at BRD Hospital, Gorakhpur,” Dr Kafeel Khan said.

Strategic value of the Indo-US partnership is predicated upon a democratic and pluralistic India, which has been an island of stability in a volatile region surrounded by a wide swath of Islamic states.