https://www.scmp.com/rss/325905/feed Abhijit Singh is a senior fellow and head of maritime policy at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com As the presence of Chinese research ships and fishing fleets grows in the Indian Ocean, India’s Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Karambir Singh, has warned against “any maritime activity that deviates from the norm or rule-based order, that can cause regional instability”. Speaking at the Raisina dialogue in New Delhi last month, he added that “if there is anything that impinges on our national interest or sovereignty, we will have to act”. The warning comes after an Indian warship expelled the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3050063/beijing-seeking-grand-bargain-new-delhi-indian-ocean?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3050063/beijing-seeking-grand-bargain-new-delhi-indian-ocean?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:00:14 +0000 Two developments in recent days have given rise to speculation that India’s South China Sea policy could be shifting. First, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited Tokyo last week, where the two countries reviewed their security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region and reportedly even discussed developments in the South China Sea. In a visit to Vladivostok soon after, Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed a memorandum of agreement to open a fully fledged maritime route between Russia’s... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3026729/indias-south-china-sea-policy-has-not-changed-now-theres-no?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3026729/indias-south-china-sea-policy-has-not-changed-now-theres-no?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Sep 2019 03:00:13 +0000 Undersea warfare has come to the surface after the South China Morning Post reported on Beijing’s development of giant, smart, cheap unmanned submarines. The “sea bots”, operated by artificial intelligence, are intended to perform tasks as diverse as reconnaissance, mine placement and making self-destructive attacks. They are now undergoing testing at a facility in Guangdong province, and will be part of a network of manned and unmanned assets tracking rival submarines in the world’s... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2161985/how-india-too-quest-undersea-dominance-counter?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2161985/how-india-too-quest-undersea-dominance-counter?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Aug 2018 19:30:45 +0000 Since US President Donald Trump repeatedly used the “Indo-Pacific” term during his first tour of Asia, there has been much hairsplitting over the term’s geopolitical implications. There has also been analysis of its implications for the maritime strategies of the United States, Japan, Australia and India, who have revived their Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. In a recent Washington Post article, Indian naval captain Gurpreet Khurana railed against Trump’s distortion of the “Indo-Pacific”, a... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2121907/indo-pacific-has-always-been-about-containing-rise-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2121907/indo-pacific-has-always-been-about-containing-rise-china?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Nov 2017 08:19:53 +0000