- Representatives of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Navy have joined the Defence attaché and the Deputy Defence attaché in the Indian Embassy office in Beijing.
- This signals the sign of expanding military-to-military engagement between India and China, especially in the navy since both the navies were encountering each other more frequently on the high seas.
- India has attachés from all three services only in the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia.
- The absence of a permanent naval attaché had posed logical obstacles with the defence attachés having to liaise with the People’s Liberation Army Navy over plans for exercises and visits.
- Read at:http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/first-indian-air-force-navy-attachs-take-charge-in-china/article6247071.ece