{"id":200685,"date":"2022-08-19T17:44:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=200685"},"modified":"2022-08-19T17:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:14:42","slug":"chinese-ship-at-hambantota-calls-for-new-delhi-to-look-closely-at-its-maritime-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chinese-ship-at-hambantota-calls-for-new-delhi-to-look-closely-at-its-maritime-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ship at Hambantota calls for New Delhi to look closely at its maritime strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cChinese ship at Hambantota calls for New Delhi to look closely at its maritime strategy\u201d <\/strong>published in the Indian Express <\/b>on\u00a019th<\/sup>\u00a0August 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 <\/strong>– India and its Neighbourhood relations.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: Yuan Wang 5 and China\u2019s evolving Indian Ocean strategy<\/span><\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recently, Sri Lanka approved the arrival of a Chinese satellite-tracking vessel named \u201cYuan Wang 5\u201d to Hambantota port. India had protested the Chinese vessel\u2019s visit, deeming it detrimental to India\u2019s security.<\/p>\n

About Yuan Wang 5<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Must read: Yuan Wang 5: Why is the visit of a Chinese vessel to Sri Lanka\u2019s Hambantota port controversial?<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
How do Yuan Wang 5 impact India-Sri Lanka relations?<\/h5>\n

Permission by Sri Lanka might be violative of the 1987 Indo-Sri Lankan Accord<\/strong>. The accord calls upon the two countries to prevent foreign activity in their respective territories that could pose a threat to the other.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: The ship is not classified as a warship, and therefore Sri Lanka permitted it under research vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Chinese military vessel at Hambantota is a spectre that threatens the new equilibrium in India-Sri Lanka relations<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
About China\u2019s evolving Indian Ocean strategy<\/h5>\n

The Chinese policy in the Indian Ocean is gradual and relentless encroachment that expands China\u2019s tactical space and asserts China’s rights and interests in spaces outside its sphere of natural influence.<\/p>\n

Under it, China does not want to physically dominate the region, but it is creating a permissive environment for its military activities. For instance, in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, China has already sent survey and research vessels, as a way of marking their presence in the region.<\/p>\n

They deployed YW-5 because<\/p>\n

1)<\/strong> To threaten Indian interests in the region by conducting electronic snooping by foreign ships, aircraft and satellites, 2)<\/strong> To showcase Chinese support from Indian Ocean littoral states, 3)<\/strong> China uses maritime militias to threaten any activity deemed inimical to Chinese sovereign interests. So in future, they might deploy warships to foreign ports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Step back from water\u2019s edge<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What does India need to do?<\/h5>\n

India needs to assess the following conditions and has to define them clearly to improve India’s maritime policy. These include a)<\/strong> Permitting foreign activity in littoral areas if it has a noble cause, b)<\/strong> International rules that privilege user-state rights can be permitted over the security concerns of littoral nations, and c)<\/strong> Whether India required law or should it demand special rights in its near-seas to protect India\u2019s national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cChinese ship at Hambantota calls for New Delhi to look closely at its maritime strategy\u201d published in the Indian Express on\u00a019th\u00a0August 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 – India and its Neighbourhood relations. Relevance: Yuan Wang 5 and China\u2019s evolving Indian Ocean strategy News: Recently, Sri Lanka approved the arrival… Continue reading Chinese ship at Hambantota calls for New Delhi to look closely at its maritime strategy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-200685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704806913},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}