China Wants To Turn The Indian Ocean Into The China Ocean

[beijingwalker]

China Wants To Turn The Indian Ocean Into The China Ocean
FEB 12, 2018 @ 08:07 PM
China wants to turn the vast Indian Ocean into the China Ocean. When it comes to investment and commerce that is.

To execute this grand plan, Beijing is investing heavily in several infrastructure projects. Like Sri Lanka’s ports of Colombo and Hambantota, which give Beijing a trade outpost into the Indian Ocean. And the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a colossal infrastructure project, which connects China’s western territories to the Indian Ocean.

But that’s the old news. The new news is that China is turning Maldives into another trading outpost with the acquisition of land there, and the signing of a free trade agreement.

These developments have irked India, for a couple of reasons. One of them is economic. Sri Lanka and Maldives can serve as a base for China to flood the Indian market with its products. Malvides, for instance, has a free trade agreement with both India and China. This means that Beijing can send products to Maldives first, and then re-export them to India.


The other reason is geopolitical. China wants to encircle India by turning trade outposts into military outposts.

To be fair, China has repeatedly asserted that it doesn’t plan to use the port for military purposes.

The trouble is that history proves otherwise. In the past four years, Chinese submarines have begun suddenly and repeatedly showing up in the Chinese-operated South Container Terminal in the port of Colombo.

And that’s in spite of India’s high-profile protests, which included join naval exercises with America, Japan, and Australia.

While it is unclear whether China will succeed in turning the Indian Ocean into the China Ocean, one thing is clear: antagonism between China on the one side and India and its allies on the other will intensify, as China rises economically.

And that raises geopolitical risks, something investors should be concerned.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosm...dian-ocean-into-the-china-ocean/#4fc412d25bef

 

[Enigma_]

Good.

 

[neem456]

Coming years quad will have total control over indian ocean. Chinese do not have that many resources to control both SCS and Indian ocean.

 

[Dungeness]

China doesn't want to turn Indian Ocean into China Ocean, it just wants to make Indian Ocean an Ocean of Peace and Prosperity, and India is welcomed to be part of it.

 

[fallstuff]

Coming years quad will have total control over indian ocean. Chinese do not have that many resources to control both SCS and Indian ocean.

There is this base in Diego Garcia .......

 

[beijingwalker]

Chinese ocean means the ocean of peace and prosperity.

 

[Han Patriot]

Coming years quad will have total control over indian ocean. Chinese do not have that many resources to control both SCS and Indian ocean.

America already controls the IOR. We are just providing an alternative and hedging the secutiry of IOR to prevent any party from getting dominative. Djibouti and Gwadar are pincer ports, if India try to be funny, we pinch them back into reality. Maldives is next to Diego Garcia to keep tabs on US. Funny how India needs 4 countries to counter China, I thought you guys were a supa powa since 2012?

We are unworthy of this quad, just a poor humble developing country. Is China so powerful to the extent that it takes 4 countries to counter us?

 

[KAL-EL]

There is this base in Diego Garcia .......

A magic wand will be waived and the base will instantaneously disappear.

Well, at least in the mental video game some of the ultra-nationalist types like to play.

Meanwhile, back in the real world...

 

[gambit]

China doesn't want to turn Indian Ocean into China Ocean, it just wants to make Indian Ocean an Ocean of Peace and Prosperity, and India is welcomed to be part of it.

You mean the Indian Ocean is at war now ? Who are fighting ?

 

[beijingwalker]

You mean the Indian Ocean is at war now ? Who are fighting ?

Lots of pirates

 

[gambit]

Lots of pirates

Why is that not a local problem? Is Chinese trade in danger?

 

[beijingwalker]

Why is that not a local problem? Is Chinese trade in danger?

Yes, Chinese merchant ships got attacked multiple times and now we have to escort our ships with battle ships.

 

[Adonis]

China doesn't want to turn Indian Ocean into China Ocean, it just wants to make Indian Ocean an Ocean of Peace and Prosperity, and India is welcomed to be part of it.

Haha I like the way you present it.....on lighter side and in the same way "US/Japan and south east asian countries doesn't want to turn South China Sea into Indo-Pacific Ocean, it just wants to make South China Sea a sea of Peace and Prosperity, and China is welcomed to be part of it"...don't you agree?

 

[gambit]

Yes, Chinese merchant ships got attacked multiple times and now we have to escort our ships with battle ships.

So you should have no problems if India and the US also have their naval presence. The more warships, the more secure the trade, right ?

 

[Dungeness]

Haha I like the way you present it.....on lighter side and in the same way "US/Japan and south east asian countries doesn't want to turn South China Sea into Indo-Pacific Ocean, it just wants to make South China Sea a sea of Peace and Prosperity, and China is welcomed to be part of it"...don't you agree?

Not quite the same. China drawn 9 dash-line in SCS in 1947, but India forgot to draw a line in Indian Ocean back then.