INDIA AND ITS ISLANDS
Dec 23, 2020
Andaman Islands
Emerging Sino-Indian competition: This can be seen through China’s routine deployment of submarines, the construction of submarine surveillance networks, and the expansion of Chinese naval bases with the formation of a military base in Djibouti.
In addition, by widening the scope of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) as the Maritime Silk Path, China challenges India’s hegemony in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) as India has joined hands with Japan and the US in the Malabar Naval Exercises.
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