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‘Coordinated patrol can prevent another Doklam’(The Hindu)
Context
India, China can avoid standoffs in grey areas
What has happened?
Referring to the maritime dimension of the China-India ties, the researcher signaled that Beijing and New Delhi could become joint stakeholders in the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
Need of institutionalizing
After last month’s Wuhan informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, coordinated patrolling could be more strongly “institutionalised”.
Stakeholders in western pacific
A comprehensive bilateral maritime dialogue at a ministerial level should be established first, which “ not only included diplomats but also high ranking representatives of military and other field related to traditional and non- traditional security
