India, US and Japan to hold joint naval exercise

[Aepsilons]

I will be updating this with pictures in the upcoming days.


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Naval manoeuvres that have rankled China in the past are set to unfold in the North Pacific Ocean next week.


Japanese warships will join an armada of US and Indian warships to take part in exercise Malabar from July 24-30, a trilateral engagement that China has been suspicious of and is expected to track closely.

China had lodged a formal protest when Japan was invited to take part in this exercise in 2007. The Malabar series has historically been an Indo-US affair, but its scope has widened with Japan being invited for the third time.

Japanese ambassador to India Takeshi Yagi said his country attached immense importance to maritime cooperation with India.

The exercise is being held at time when the US is giving more attention to Asia-Pacific in what Washington calls "rebalance" in its ties with the region. China has disapproved of the shift in the US foreign policy, as Beijing believes the move is aimed at containing it.

The exercise also comes in the backdrop of rising tensions between Tokyo and Beijing over disputed islands in the East China Sea.

Unlike previous years, the upcoming exercise will not see aircraft carriers in action. India will be represented by stealth frigate INS Shivalik, destroyer INS Ranvijay and fleet tanker INS Shakti at the exercise.

India, US and Japan to hold joint naval exercise - Hindustan Times

 

[SouthDesi]

Oh boy, how India is able to manage these equations b\n different countries?

Managing good relations with Japan, China, Russia and USA at same time. Something got to be unique in this polarized world.

 

[Aepsilons]

I would say a smart foreign policy. Being Non-aligned has its benefit(s).

 

[SouthDesi]

I would say a smart foreign policy. Being Non-aligned has its benefit(s).

If Nehru wasn't screwed-up in 60's, India would have maintain the best relations with China. Lost golden era.

 

[Jlaw]

Oh boy, how India is able to manage these equations b\n different countries?

Managing good relations with Japan, China, Russia and USA at same time. Something got to be unique in this polarized world.

I've always felt that no matter how good relationships China has with India, regardless of how many billions of potential investment in India by China, India will side with the US.

@Chinese-Dragon is right that US is China's main enemy, but he is wrong with thinking India will side with China to counter the US. India will side with US and Japan when push comes to shove. They do not care much about this multi-polar world that China want.
@Chinese-Dragon: 一山不能藏二虎.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

I've always felt that no matter how good relationships China has with India, regardless of how many billions of potential investment in India by China, India will side with the US.

@Chinese-Dragon is right that US is China's main enemy, but he is wrong with thinking India will side with China to counter the US. India will side with US and Japan when push comes to shove. They do not care much about this multi-polar world that China want.
@Chinese-Dragon: 一山不能藏二虎.

You only push others away to the US Actually, India is pretty damn neutral.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

@Chinese-Dragon: 一山不能藏二虎.

Such a common quote, so often misapplied.

The US is a danger to us (a tiger if you like), because the world runs on the US dollar, and thus America can "cut off" countries from the international financial system. Iran found that out the hard way, Russia fortunately is a net exporter of oil/gas resources so they were not hit as badly. And if even Russia could get hit, so could we, and unlike them we are the world's biggest importer of oil/gas.

Secondly, the US Navy is more powerful than the rest of the world's navies combined. They could cut us off and choke our vital resource and trade routes, that is a huge danger. And that's the main reason we developed the world's very first ASBM system, the DF-21D carrier killer, which will let us sit back and sink large ships from thousands of kilometers away (such as ships trying to blockade us). Soon to be upgraded with HGV tech, which will double the range, increase the maneuverability/accuracy, and be almost impossible to intercept.

India is a completely different story. We hold the high ground on the Tibetan plateau, an unassailable barrier, and our economy/military is vastly more powerful than theirs.

We have the world's largest inventory of sub strategic (non-nuclear) ballistic missiles, along with thousands of cruise missiles and rocket artillery, with more than enough range to hit India's capital city New Delhi which is only 300 km from the border, and needless to say can also target every single airfield they have in their NE with plenty of missiles to spare.

As for the sea, China has more nuclear submarines (around 10) than India has total active submarines (around 7). And we also have around 60 conventional submarines in addition to that, the advantage is so overwhelming that our submarine fleet even outnumbers their surface destroyers and frigates. That's not even counting our surface fleet which is even more massive.

This is why the Chinese government (not me) is putting so much focus on the BRICS. And I happen to agree with them. Our threat is not our fellow developing nations, but the global hegemon.

I've always felt that no matter how good relationships China has with India, regardless of how many billions of potential investment in India by China, India will side with the US.

@Chinese-Dragon is right that US is China's main enemy, but he is wrong with thinking India will side with China to counter the US. India will side with US and Japan when push comes to shove. They do not care much about this multi-polar world that China want.

Absolutely true. India will never openly side with China against America, as I have said myself many times.

That's not needed though. To achieve China's main foreign policy goal of creating a multi-polar world, all we need are multiple strong powers that are independent of American control. The existence of such powers that do not toe the American line, is already a powerful blow to the current uni-polar hegemony.

The BRICS and the SCO are therefore the perfect vehicles to achieve this. And clearly, the Chinese government agrees, which is why they were even willing to pay more than the other BRICS, and still accept an equal share in the BRICS bank, which is not an easy concession to make.

 

[terranMarine]

You only push others away to the US Actually, India is pretty damn neutral.

Maybe yes, maybe no. China can't tell because current or future Indian leaders cannot guarantee policy shift towards the US. Either way Indian media sure love bragging the China killer missile, makes me wonder if they are trying to brainwash the people into thinking China is a dangerous enemy.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Maybe yes, maybe no. China can't tell because current or future Indian leaders cannot guarantee policy shift towards the US. Either way Indian media sure love bragging the China killer missile, makes me wonder if they are trying to brainwash the people into thinking China is a dangerous enemy.

Indian media says a lot of things without much thought. It's dramatic soup opera for the moment.

 

[Kyle Sun]

Oh boy, how India is able to manage these equations b\n different countries?

Managing good relations with Japan, China, Russia and USA at same time. Something got to be unique in this polarized world.

Absolutely.

But much easier than Yugoslavia

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Some nations just want show off to China, it proves nothing, India is well aware of US that why it step into SCO as observers, being a BRICS group to have some geopolitics options available in case that US become nasty. As for China, Xi is more busy with trades than to be annoyed by some flies buzzing around wit military exercise...LMAO