Why is China Aggressively Turning to the Sea Now? Former NSA Shivshankar Menon Explains News18 2 hours ago Shivshankar Menon © Provided by News18 Why is China Aggressively Turning to the Sea Now? Former NSA Shivshankar Menon Explains
India’s interests, like Asia itself, are greatly affected by how a rising China chooses to behave. As China turns to the sea, it is in a more comfortable geopolitical position than at any time since the high Qing conquest of the Dzungars in central Asia at the end of the eighteenth century. Through its long history, its preoccupation was to defend a geographically open inner Asian frontier against the nomads of the northern steppe belt that hatched several dynasties that ruled China from the Tang to the Manchu or Qing. That is now changed. China’s task of neutralizing and managing the Eurasian heartland has been considerably eased by the division of that steppe belt into smaller and weaker states, and by the retreat and di
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