Tag: SLOCs

• Not India’s Ocean: Perceptions of Chinese Presence in the Indian Ocean

  It is important to start with that oft-repeated statement made by a Chinese admiral, “We can no longer accept the Indian Ocean as an ocean of the Indians.” Apart from a sense of nationalist hurt that Indian reactions to the statement portrayed and continue to portray, the statement succeeded also in evoking a realization hitherto…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  27 August 2011

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  energy security, Gwadar, Indian Navy, MOOTW, Myanmar, Pakistan, PLAN, Sino-Indian relations, SLOCs, string of pearls, United States