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Facebook WhatsApp India entered 2021 faced with two security challenges: a standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and China’s growing covert presence in the eastern Indian Ocean (EIO). These challenges should signal to New Delhi the need to develop its own ‘theatre-wide’ approach in countering Beijing’s Indo-Pacific expansionism. As India continues to develop capabilities in Eastern Ladakh, it should also prioritise its inner maritime regions, the Andaman and Laccadive Seas. Common Theatre-wide Concerns Both incursions—the first, of course, more critical than the other—are part of Beijing’s global designs as exemplified by the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Its...
