Chinese actions, he said, were adding to a sense of "anxiety" in the region. But Swift said this would only happen "step by step" a clear indication that neither the US nor India wants to raise Chinese hackles further by turning the Japan-India-US trilateral exercise into the "quad". Swift clarified that P8s and ASW (anti-submarine warfare) would be part of the exercise this year, an acknowledgment of China's submarine capabilities. That is missing in the South China Sea.While India and the US have a working group on carrier technology and building, Swift indicated the progress was slow. He said there was an issue with "capacities" linking the shortage of interlocutors on the decommissioning of their own carrier, the USS Enterprise.

Source: Times of India May 05, 2017 16:35 UTC