Highlights
India has expanded its role in the Indian Ocean Region in the last few years.
India has helped in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief to supplying food and medical aid amidst COVID pandemic.
New Delhi: The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has accepted, grudgingly, that India has unique geographical advantages in the Indian ocean.
As per an article published in its mouthpiece Global Times, under the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to the Indo-Pacific groupings, New Delhi has been able to leverage the advantage with more and more countries joining Indian-led initiatives.
In fact, with Indo-Pacific construct, India is connecting Indian and Pacific oceans from the east coast of Africa to the west coast of the Americas, and as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, Indo-Pacific is not tomorrow’s forecast but yesterday’s reality.
Security, stability, peace and prosperity of Indo-Pacific is vital for the world: S Jaishankar
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Defining the Indio-Pacific construct, Jaishankar stated, “The Indo-Pacific signifies the confluence of the Indian and the Pacific Oceans that can no longer be handled as distinct spheres.”
Defining the Indio-Pacific construct, Jaishankar stated, “The Indo-Pacific signifies the confluence of the Indian and the Pacific Oceans that can no longer be handled as distinct spheres.”
The security, stability, peace and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific is vital for the world, stated S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs.
He was speaking on the session “Future Construct of the Indo-Pacific”, at the Partnership Summit 2020, jointly organized by the Confederation of the Indian Industry (CII) and the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
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