{"id":31125,"date":"2018-10-27T12:10:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31125"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:10:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:40:22","slug":"china-deploys-warships-in-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-deploys-warships-in-indian-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018China deploys warships in Indian Ocean\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/china-deploys-warships-in-indian-ocean\/article22808463.ece\"><b>\u2018China deploys warships in Indian Ocean\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Chinese website, a Chinese naval contingent has been deployed in the East Indian Ocean<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is in news?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the report, the Blue 2018A fleet of the Chinese Navy has been training in the East Indian Ocean for a \u2018week or so\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The website has<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">linked the deployment of the warships, including an amphibious vessel that can transfer troops from sea to land, to the evolving situation in the Maldives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post has also highlighted that two additional naval groups, already deployed for anti-piracy escort missions of commercial ships, beef up the Navy\u2019s overall deployment in the Indian Ocean at this time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These include the 27th escort convoy comprising a destroyer, frigate and a replenishment ship that may have entered the south Indian Ocean, having crossed the southern tip of Africa, after completing its mission in the Atlantic<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It partners with the Navy\u2019s third ship contingent in the Indian Ocean \u2014 the 28th convoy escort formation in the western Indian Ocean.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Indian defence sources have denied any movement of Chinese ships near Maldives<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Significance of the issue:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to an Australian website, the entry of Chinese warships in the Indian Ocean marks a significant shift in regional power. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It shows that China is trying to exercise influence over a small state more usually within India\u2019s strategic view<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is expected to intensify strategic competition and increase mistrust between China and India<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018China deploys warships in Indian Ocean\u2019 Context: According to a Chinese website, a Chinese naval contingent has been deployed in the East Indian Ocean What is in news? According to the report, the Blue 2018A fleet of the Chinese Navy has been training in the East Indian Ocean for a \u2018week or so\u2019 The website&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-deploys-warships-in-indian-ocean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018China deploys warships in Indian Ocean\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704954172},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31125","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}