Amid tensions at LAC, China tacitly accepts India's supremacy in Indian ocean region
Sunday, December 20, 2020
By: Zee News
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has accepted, grudgingly, that India has unique geographical advantages in the Indian ocean.
As per an article published in its mouthpiece Global Times, under the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to the Indo-Pacific groupings, New Delhi has been able to leverage the advantage with more and more countries joining Indian-led initiatives.
In fact, with Indo-Pacific construct, India is connecting Indian and Pacific oceans from the east coast of Africa to the west coast of the Americas, and as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, "Indo-Pacific is not tomorrow’s forecast but yesterday’s reality."