Kyusuibu Honbu
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Then as I say, India and China have no issues. India wants to exert its influence in Indian Ocean so that no one can threaten it, blockade it or the like, similar to China's intent in the China Seas.
Rather, India and China should cooperate, because frankly we have two totally different strategic zones, which don't overlap.
What say? @Syama Ayas
While researching on the issue Chinese submarine confronting American naval vessel, I stumbled on a wikileaks cable, where a high level person from US Navy met his Chinese counterpart.
The Chinese counterpart bluntly stated, US navy should take care of the Pacific and PLAN would take care of the other side, the American thought the Chinese counterpart was joking, but later considered this as long term Chinese Navy's goal
This conversation has caught the attention of Ajit Doval and has mentioned this in a response to question regarding Chinese threat and interpreted this PLAN's intentions to dominate Indian Ocean.
Also, assessing PLAN goals should factor in the divergence between CCP leadership and PLA leadership in mind.
Cooperation with China is off the table, the approach of using carrot for Chinese appeasement has been tried by previous Govts of India, Australia and Japan also initially by current US Govt, which has not given the expected result.
Hence all of them are resorting to use the stick for the Chinese.