India and China at the Crossroads: The Imperatives of Reworking India’s Strategy

Ensemble ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Madhuri Sukhija ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Strategic Space ◽  
India And China ◽  
Over Time

Any discussion on India- China relations is incomplete without mentioning that today the center of gravity of the whole world is slowly shifting to Asia. Besides, one-third of the world's population lives in countries, bordering the Indian Ocean. The security environment is uncertain and great power transitions are taking place. India and China both are aspiring powers in Asia, however, with a certain degree of asymmetries in their power and strength. In the eighties, both the economies were of the same size but today the Chinese economy is way ahead and most global supply chains run through it. China is the world's manufacturing superpower and with its technological expertise, its military expansionist ways, and its distinct footprint in India's neighborhood, both land and maritime, all make it a serious force to contend with. Over time, the relations between the two neighbors have been a cause of grave concern. The interests of both India and China intersect. They have expanding geopolitical horizons and earnestly strive for 'strategic space' in the same region. The present essay reflects upon the relations between India and China that have been oscillating from cooperation to competition and from confrontation to conflict. Further, an attempt is made to focus on the challenges that are galore and the potentiality of reworking India's China strategy.

Managing Maritime Competition between India and China

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingdong Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Emerging Powers ◽  
India And China

This chapter provides a perspective on China’s growing security presence in the Indian Ocean and the strategic imperatives behind it and then India’s responses to these initiatives. The author argues that despite the apparent threats this presence presents to India, there are approaches that India and China can explore to reduce the risk of conflict. Jingdong Yuan also reviews China’s growing security presence in the Indian Ocean and the strategic imperatives behind it and India’s responses to these initiatives. Yuan argues that it is imperative that policymakers in both New Delhi and Beijing make concerted efforts to ensure that these two emerging powers can manage, if not completely avoid, their overlapping interests and ever-closer encounters in the Indian Ocean.

scholarly journals Issues in Sino-Indian Relations: Implications for Competition

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (II) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Fakhr Ul Munir ◽  
SanaUllah ◽  
Anila
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Dalai Lama ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Relations ◽  
India And China

India and China are the world's fast mounting economies influencing global politics affecting 2.5 billion of their subjects via their policies. Both states account for one-fifth of the total populace of the globe. Asia's overall progress, peace, prosperity and stability is directly influenced by the relations of these two Asian competitors. It is anticipated that by 2025, these states would be world's economies. However, bilateral disputes and enmity wield greater regional and global implications, which are intensely required to be resolved for the best and prosperous future. One of the most crucial aspects aggravating Sino-Indian relations is the asylum given to Dalai Lama and the status of Tibet. China has been assisting Pakistan economically and technically to build Gwadar Port, supporting Sri Lankan northern Hambantota Port, extending sustenance to Bangladesh's Chittagong Port, and furthering support to the Myanmar Port lying at the coastal region of the Indian Ocean. However, the strained relations for decades between India and China had given little space for healthy trade, increasing from 3 billion $ in 2000 to 20 billion $ in 2010.

Tibet and the Sino-Indian borders

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jude Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Trade Deficit ◽  
Sensitive Issue ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
India And China

China and India’s long-standing border disputes have defied settlement and frequently disrupted their relations. This chapter considers the background to the disputes, and how India and China have gradually de-escalated the conflict since the Sino-Indian 1962 border war. In this context it also looks at how the sensitive issue of Tibet has been exploited by the US in creating problems for China since 1949. The chapter concludes that overall the issues that have been flagged for conflict between India and China – the borders, the Indian Ocean, India’s trade deficit with China – are better addressed through collaboration than conflict, leading India to stand aloof from the US’s new Cold War strategies towards China.

Tsunami geoscience

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 575-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Dawson ◽  
Iain Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Lisbon Earthquake ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Over Time

Research in tsunami geoscience has accelerated markedly ever since the tragedy of the Indian Ocean tsunami of Boxing Day 2004. Yet, for many decades and centuries, scholars have been describing a multiplicity of tsunami events. Thus the Royal Society devoted a whole volume to the effects of the Great Lisbon earthquake and tsunami of November AD 1755 while in the early nineteenth century Charles Darwin was describing the great tsunami at Valdivia, Chile, in his account of the Voyage of the Beagle. Today, research in tsunami geoscience is still finding its feet. Thus, whereas there has been a wealth of publications on the reconstruction of Late Quaternary and Holocene tsunamis, the literature describing evidence for tsunamis in the geological record are rare. In this paper, we describe how our understanding of tsunamis has changed over time and we try also to identify areas of tsunami geoscience worthy of future study.

scholarly journals ZANZIBARIS OR AMAKHUWA? SUFI NETWORKS IN SOUTH AFRICA, MOZAMBIQUE, AND THE INDIAN OCEAN

2014 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preben Kaarsholm
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Ritual Practices

AbstractThis article investigates the role of Sufi networks in keeping Durban's ‘Zanzibari’ community of African Muslims together and developing their response to social change and political developments from the 1950s to the post-apartheid period. It focuses on the importance of religion in giving meaning to notions of community, and discusses the importance of the Makua language in maintaining links with northern Mozambique and framing understandings of Islam. The transmission of ritual practices of the Rifaiyya, Qadiriyya, and Shadhiliyya Sufi brotherhoods is highlighted, as is the significance of Maputo as a node for such linkages. The article discusses change over time in notions of cosmopolitanism, diaspora, and belonging, and examines new types of interactions after 1994 between people identifying themselves as Amakhuwa in Durban and Mozambique.

scholarly journals India and China in the Indian Ocean: Changing Dimensions of Maritime Strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anju Lis Kurian ◽  
◽  
C. Vinodan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Naval Power ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Maritime Strategy ◽  
Security Affairs ◽  
India And China

In Asian and global power politics a maritime strategic angle concentrates on the value of fortifying and controlling sea lines of communications (SLOCs) for stability, economic growth, and development of nations. Consequently, both India and China are snooping to control SLOCs and safeguard their emergent and escalating worldwide interests. The advancement in and expansion of naval power satisfies the corresponding nationalist aspirations of Beijing and New Delhi. As a result, the development of their maritime capabilities would have a greater impact on the naval security architecture in the Indian Ocean. The hike in Chinese engagements across the Indian Ocean widely known as the String of Pearl’s stratagem is principally stimulated by a policy of maritime encirclement of India. Struggle to secure tactical energy resources which are quickly revolutionizing their navies could induce clashes and have major repercussions for global security affairs. Harmonious handling of both China’s and India’s cooperation will be crucial for regional as well as international peace and opulence shortly and everyone looks upon a fabulous Asia reflected in the world. Thus, this paper analyses the underlying factors that motivate both countries to have ambitious objectives in the Indian Ocean and could find out that securing energy is one of the driving forces in securing maritime dominance across the Indian Ocean.

scholarly journals Places in the Indian Ocean World

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Maritime Studies ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
Over Time

We all enact change over time, but are not nearly as concerned with where we are writing about. One recent trend in general historiography may help our maritime studies. This is the matter of place. To illustrate this, let me say a little about three particular spaces, that is, ships, then coasts, and finally port cities.

scholarly journals Maritime Security and Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Gurpreet Singh Khurana
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
National Security ◽  
Maritime Security ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Centre Of Gravity ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Western Pacific

The centre-of-gravity of world‘s economic power is shifting eastwards to the ‗Indo-Pacific‘, a maritime-configured macro-region that spans the maritime underbelly of Asia connecting the Indian and the western Pacific oceans. The security environment in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific are different; nonetheless, strong maritime security linkages emerging between the two oceans has led to the reincarnation of the concept of ‗Indo-Pacific‘. Since the turn of the 21st century, new maritime insecurities have taken root, including in terms of China‘s revisionist positions on the established maritime order. Notwithstanding the US response in the western Pacific and the recent articulation of its ‗Indo-Pacific‘ strategy, it is unclear how the regional countries and the major regional stakeholders willmanage to address the emerging maritime insecurities in the Indian Ocean, including in terms of China‘s expanding politico-military footprint. This paper attempts to examine the security environment and geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific in context of India‘s national security interests.

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