{"id":32457,"date":"2018-10-29T14:47:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32457"},"modified":"2018-10-29T14:47:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:17:37","slug":"we-are-aware-of-chinas-maritime-ambitions-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/we-are-aware-of-chinas-maritime-ambitions-india\/","title":{"rendered":"We are aware of Chinas maritime ambitions: India\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/we-are-aware-of-chinas-maritime-ambitions-india\/article22288544.ece\">We are aware of Chinas maritime ambitions: India<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre on Wednesday informed the Lok Sabha that it was aware of China\u2019s ambition to emerge as a \u201cmaritime power\u201d and indicated that India maintained a \u201cclose watch\u201d on all developments that threatened its security.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Says it is always on the lookout for any threat to security<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Issuing a statement on the immediate neighbourhood-related issues, Minister of State for External Affairs Gen. (Ret.) V.K. Singh expressed commitment to stay engaged with the neighbours but maintained that the onus for restarting bilateral dialogue lies with Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Independent foreign policies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia and China have, on several occasions, reiterated that, as large neighbours following independent foreign policies, the relationships pursued by India and China with other countries must not become a source of concern for each other. Both countries have agreed to display mutual respect and sensitivity to each other\u2019s concerns and aspirations<\/p>\n<p><strong>On China\u2019s FTA with Maldives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The statement is significant in view of China\u2019s recently concluded Free Trade Agreement with the Maldives which has drawn India\u2019s attention.<\/li>\n<li>The government is aware of China\u2019s stated objective of becoming a \u2018maritime power\u2019. As part of this strategy, China is developing ports and other infrastructure facilities in the littoral countries in the Indian Ocean region, including in the vicinity of India\u2019s maritime boundary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Neighbourhood ties not affected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Singh highlighted the \u201cneighbourhood first\u201d policy as a \u201ccontinuous and ongoing process\u201d and said India\u2019s ties with its neighbours stood on their own \u201cfooting\u201d and were not influenced by third party intervention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Onus lies on Pakistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on ties with Pakistan, he said, the \u201conus\u201d of starting the Comprehensive Dialogue Process launched during the 2015 visit to Islamabad by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, lies on Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are aware of Chinas maritime ambitions: India\u00a0 Context The Centre on Wednesday informed the Lok Sabha that it was aware of China\u2019s ambition to emerge as a \u201cmaritime power\u201d and indicated that India maintained a \u201cclose watch\u201d on all developments that threatened its security. Says it is always on the lookout for any threat&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/we-are-aware-of-chinas-maritime-ambitions-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We are aware of Chinas maritime ambitions: India\u00a0<\/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-32457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704851665},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32457","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=32457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}