Because of its border expansion or usurpation policy, China has disputes with all those countries whose border is with China. The countries of the world are apprehensive about China’s growing influence in the region from the South Sea to the Indo-Pacific. India also shares its border with China. In such a situation, India often clashes with China. At the same time, in view of the increasing influence of the Chinese Navy, the navies of America, India, Australia, Japan and France have deepened their mutual cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. Along with this, India has asked its Navy to increase vigilance in those areas of the Indian Ocean where it often encounters the Chinese Navy.

) Large presence of Chinese ships in the Indian Ocean region: It is noteworthy that considering the deployment of Chinese ships in the Indian Ocean India is also increasing its security. In this series, Indian Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar said on Saturday that there is a large deployment of Chinese ships in the Indian Ocean region and India is keeping a close watch on the developments in the region to protect its national interests in the maritime domain. He also said during a conference call that the Indian Navy is monitoring the port calls of various Chinese Navy ships in Pakistan.

When asked about the threat aspects, the Navy Chief discussed the overall situation emerging apart from both conventional and non-conventional threats. He said the Indian Navy’s role is to protect national interests in the maritime domain, wherever they may be, and assess threats and challenges. Meanwhile, Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhary, Chief of the Air Staff, in a separate talk on ‘Indian Air Force: The future is now’ at ‘The Chanakya Conclave’ in Delhi, said that the ground attack needs to be worked on in the future. Apart from the platform, we should also have a space based attack system.

In response to a question about emerging military threats, it said that it would “reduce counter-attack time and have a major impact on adversaries, so the future depends on the existence of space-based attack platforms”. After this session, the Chief of the Naval Staff ’21Indian Navy participated in a session on Emerging Maritime Threats in the 20th century. The Navy chief said that every day it is being seen that some or the other dispute is happening in the sea. He said that it is far below the level of confrontation, but the possibility of a confrontation cannot be ruled out.

When asked a question regarding the stoppage of Chinese Navy ships at ports in Pakistan, he said that these ships are anchoring not only in Pakistan but also at ports of various countries. He said that as far as the arrival of Chinese ships at the ports of Pakistan is concerned, we are keeping an eye on it. Admiral Kumar said that Pakistan Navy is modernizing very fast and it is adding new warships to its fleet.

) He said that as far as China is concerned, the last She has commissioned a large number of ships and submarines over the years, her third aircraft carrier is under construction . The Navy Chief said that China is also working on a very large destroyer. The Navy Chief said, we are keeping a very close watch in the Indian Ocean region. The effort is to know who is present there and what they are doing, we are continuously monitoring it and we are deploying aircraft, drones, ships, submarines. He said, “A large number of Chinese ships are present. There are three to six Chinese warships in the Indian Ocean region at any given time.

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