India in privileged 2+2 dialogue with US: Nitin Gokhale explains what lies in store

The United States engages very few countries in all its bilateral relations in this format. As External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman from the Indian side enter this privileged dialiogue with US Secretary of State Mike R Pompeo and Secretary of Defence James Mattis, defence affairs commentator Nitin Gokhale offers a glimpse of all the issues on the table: from strategic to trade matters and from bilateral to regional and global subjects.