India needs to be more forthright in speaking about the China threat to ensure a more robust response to China’s growing assertiveness.
Despite the current focus on Ukraine, America’s long-term strategic focus is on challenging China, including deterring the emergence of a Sino-centric regional and global order.
With global attention focussed on Ukraine, Xi’s efforts to reinstate a Sino-centric regional order by recovering ‘lost lands’, including Taiwan should not be overlooked.
China and India’s rise as major naval powers does not preclude the possibility of both developing a more cooperative dynamic in protecting the maritime ‘global commons’.
China’s traditional inward-looking nature is gradually giving way to a more expansive maritime presence, as demonstrated in both Beijing’s rhetoric and actions. Despite myriad regional maritime disputes, naval cooperation in the Asia-Pacific remains both possible and desirable.
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