Recent events highlight Russia’s growing strategic interest in the Indian Ocean, India should be aware of the consequences and think of its own regional strategy. Analyse (200 Words)
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Recent events
· Russia’s growing strategic interest in the Indian Ocean and should compel Delhi to think of its consequences for India’s own regional strategy.
· Perekop, a training vessel of the Russian Navy, arrived at the Hambantota port in Sri Lanka.
· Russian long-distance “Black Jack” nuclear bombers flew to South Africa. This is the first time these aircraft have been deployed to Africa.
· The Russian and the Chinese are conducting a trilateral naval exercise with South Africa in the strategic waters off the Cape of Good Hope.
India’s Strategy
· Delhi’s discourse on the Indian Ocean has been focused on the growing competition with China, whose maritime profile has been growing in the littoral.
· This, in turn, has led to the rapid expansion of India’s naval cooperation with the United States and Japan, as well as with its regional partners like Indonesia, Singapore and other countries in the east, many nations in the Gulf as well as the east coast of Africa.
· India has also been developing a partnership with France, a resident power in the littoral and a traditional security provider in the Western Indian Ocean and Africa.
· Russia’s return to the Indian Ocean is relatively recent. It must also be seen as a part of its new strategic activism in the Middle East and Africa.
· The region’s calls for a zone of peace in the Indian Ocean went nowhere as the US quickly replaced Britain as the main security provider in the littoral.
· The impact of Russia’s conflict with the US has come into public view in the case of Delhi’s purchase of missiles from Moscow and the consequent threat of Washington’s sanctions.
· China and Russia have conducted impressive naval manoeuvres in the Western Pacific, the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean.
· The joint exercise with South Africa this week brings the unfolding Sino-Russian naval partnership closer home to India.
· Delhi needs an early and intensive dialogue with Moscow on its Indian Ocean collaboration with China.
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Try to discuss India' s relationship with Japan as a part of regional strategy. Keep Writing.
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Try to discuss India' s relationship with Japan as a part of regional strategy and mention about India-France relations. Keep Writing.
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