Island Fortification
India’s strategic interests in the Indian Ocean have increasingly come into sharp focus, particularly in light of developments concerning the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC).
India’s strategic interests in the Indian Ocean have increasingly come into sharp focus, particularly in light of developments concerning the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC).
“The cooperation between the two countries has moved beyond the traditional role, and today aspires to be a modern partnership,” said the external affairs minister after a meeting with his Maldivian counterpart Moosa Zameer.
Understanding these changes is crucial for climate mitigation and adaptation efforts, essential for safeguarding our collective future.
In a move that reverberates across the geopolitical chessboard, India has inaugurated a new naval base on Minicoy Island in Lakshwadeep, near the Maldives.
As China continues to expand its in- fluence in the region, India must navigate a delicate bal- ance between diplomacy and safeguarding its national security interests.
New Delhi’s plans to build India’s first overseas military base are proceeding apace, according to an update on a leading web portal.
The Indian diplomat said the pandemic demonstrated like few other events could, the importance of India’s capacity to mount HADR (Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief)
But the fertile central plain is both China‘s strength as well as its weakness. China feeds 23 per cent of the world‘s population from 7 per cent of arable land, by crowding some 2,000 human beings onto each square mile of cultivated earth in the valleys and flood plains. But the narrow coastal zone of prosperity also creates a deep social chasm because it profits hugely from maritime trade which does not flow to the rest of China.
Soon after World War II, the tides of global politics turned. It became necessary for Australia to maintain close ties with both the UK and the US to resist communist advances in the southern Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
India‘s interest in the South China Sea is primarily due to the fact that the Sea and the Indian Ocean are strategically inter-related. India wants to have a maritime strategy along with the littoral countries of South East Asia that will deny Chinese dominance
