What would be an added incentive for President Xi Jinping is that India, which operates one of the world’s largest navies, sits at the junction of shipping routes which separate China from its main source of oil and gas in the Middle East and key markets of Europe.
Having already seen Beijing carry out their expansionist policy at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and in the South China Sea, it seems that the Indian Navy under the helm of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ready to thwart any wandering Chinese submarine or warship in its waters, and have just a sea monster they have been waiting to unleash— the INS Kavaratti Stealth Corvette.Read more…