The guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones sailing past Lakshadweep Islands April 7 has thrown India’s Sinophobes into confusion. One leading daily noted it as a “rare falling out between the two partners in the Quad grouping.” An anti-China analyst tweeted that it’s just a “botched PR exercise” on the part of Americans.
The Ministry of External Affairs took a legalistic perspective as if it is answering a writ petition in the Delhi High Court. But, reflect seriously. Yes, this is a rare fracas within the cosy Quad family. Yet, Quad is a toddler. What all can happen when President Biden grooms it into a boisterous adolescent?
Make no mistake, what happened is the military equivalent of what the great American diplomat-scholar George Kennan once wrote about the oil reserves in Persian Gulf — they are “our resources”, he wrote, integral to America’s prosperity and, therefore, the US should take control of them. (Which it did, of course.)
The ocean beds of South China Sea and Indian Ocean are sitting on unimaginable wealth of mineral resources — potentially, the last frontier. USS John Paul Jones acted like a dog marking the lamp post. Spectre of acute future big-power scramble — not only with China or Russia but also involving European rivals — haunts Washington. With all their tragic colonial history, Indians tend to forget.
Thus, after 65 years, Britain is returning to “east of Suez”. The 65000-tonne HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s newest aircraft carrier, is sailing to the Indian Ocean in its inaugural deployment. The grandiloquent title of the impressive 114-page document released last month by the British PM Boris Johnson says it all — Global Britain in a competitive age : The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy.
The document says rather explicitly on Page 66-69 under the sub-title The Indo-Pacific tilt : “Indo-Pacific is the world’s growth engine: home to half the world’s people; 40% of global GDP; some of the fastest- growing economies; at the forefront of new global trade arrangements; leading and adopting digital and technological innovation and standards; investing strongly in renewables and green tech; and vital to our goals for investment and resilient supply chains. The Indo- Pacific already accounts for 17.5% of UK global trade and 10% of inward FDI and we will work to build this further, including through new trade agreements, dialogues and deeper partnerships in science, technology and data.”
It concludes: “We (Britain) will also place a greater emphasis than before on the Indo-Pacific, reflecting its importance to many of the most pressing global challenges in the coming decade, such as maritime security and competition linked to laws, rules and norms.”
Again, the month of April will see French Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian arriving in India to pursue political dialogue with India, and, importantly, the 42,500 tonne Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier is leading a strike force to exercise with INS Vikramaditya in two phases in Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.
Without this “big picture”, India will keep counting the trees for the wood. There are four things about the US Navy 7th Fleet statement on Friday that arrest attention. One, it asserts in the very first sentence that this freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) took place “inside India’s exclusive economic zone, without requesting India’s prior consent.”
Two, the statement rubs it in: “India requires prior consent for military exercises or manoeuvres in its exclusive economic zone or continental shelf, a claim inconsistent with international law. This freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) upheld the rights, freedoms, and lawful uses of the sea recognised in international law by challenging India’s excessive maritime claims.”
Now, don’t the Indians know it? Of course, they do. But the US must proclaim it to the entire IOR including Pakistan — and European capitals alike — that India’s vaulting ambitions will not go unchecked.
Three, the US Navy statement flags that FONOP “demonstrate that the United States will fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows.” Now, interestingly, this is Mike Pompeo’s standard anti-China language. Plainly put, this is not a freak (“rare”) event. Besides, it’s the Arabian Sea now, but it can be Bay of Bengal tomorrow; it’s a warship sailing by today but tomorrow it can be The Dragon Lady lurking in the Indian skies at 70000 ft asserting the US prerogative to operate in India’s Exclusive Economic Zone.
Four, the statement has been issued since the Indians failed to take seriously that the FONOP are “routine and regular… as we have done in the past.” Presumably, Delhi hushed up such previous incidents. But the FONOP missions “are not about one country, nor are they about making political statements.” Simply put, the US regards India’s EEZ as part of “global commons” where it will exercise its (perceived) prerogative to act in its supreme national interests, as it deems fit. The “defining partnership of the 21st century” with India will not inhibit Washington from pursuit of American interests.
The bottom line is that in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), India should not punch above its weight. It may not be a coincidence that Washington administered this firm stricture within earshot of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s highly-publicised High Level Virtual Event on Thursday with Wavel Ramkalawan, Prime Minister of Seychelles, for “the joint e-inauguration of several development assistance projects funded by India in Seychelles and the handing over of a Fast Patrol Vessel supplied by India for the use of the Seychelles Coast Guard.”
Modi dramatically called Ramkalawan the “son of India”, alluding to the ex-pastor’s Bihari family lineage. But Washington regards Ramkalawan as the doggedly nationalistic leader of an IOR island nation that is a difficult neighbour, separated by a mere 1894 kilometres of blue waters from Diego Garcia. The establishment of a top secret military asset by India in Seychelles’s Assumption Island is bad enough but Modi Govt’s reported plans of setting up a military base in that island nation is an entirely different proposition. (For all one knows, the media leak bears the stamp of the US intelligence.)
Unsurprisingly, Delhi gave a supine response to the Pentagon warning — straight out of Chanakya’s rule book. However, now that the US warships have disappeared over the horizon, let us sit upon the ground and reflect sadly where all the heady Quad (“Asian NATO”) misadventure is taking India.
The heart of the matter is that the ruling elites’ seething sense of rivalry over China’s rise is engendering a warped Indian mindset. The Chinese commentators have been warning the Indian establishment repeatedly that its big power aspirations in the IOR are unrealistic. They were speaking from experience. In fact, contrary to the Indian narrative that Quad membership can be leveraged to extract concessions from China, Beijing thinks that Quad is more India and Russia’s geopolitical headache, but it would intrinsically have no future, given internal contradictions.
The Chinese scholars have consistently held the view that although the mainstream of the US-Indian cooperation nowadays has been cooperation instead of competition, “in the specific case of the Indian Ocean, their respective strategic views on the regional power structure are deeply rooted and these will become more and more obvious in the case of the power shift” — to quote from the prominent Chinese scholar Chunhao Lou, Deputy Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations headquartered in Beijing.
In a 2012 essay titled US-India-China Relations in the Indian Ocean: A Chinese Perspective, the leading scholar added, “Although the China factor will always be there to promote US-India cooperation, the ‘democratic peace theory’ will give way to realistic politics, and the differing interests of the US and India in the IOR will be difficult to reconcile.” Chickens are coming home to roost.
Source: The Indian Punchline
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The Americans need to read Beruni !
Sample the words of Al Beruni the great Arab Philosopher on these Hindoos.Beruni spent many years in Hindooosthan with Ghazni and studied the Vedas,Astrology and Sanskrit !
The words of Beruni on the Hindoo – which are PROPHETIC !
The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs.
They are haughty, foolishly vain, self-conceited, and stolid.
This wrong estimate of themselves blinded the Hindus and they assumed a false sense of superiority which ultimately proved their ruin.
Alberuni also tells us that “they (the Hindus) are in a state of confusion, devoid in logical order and in the last instance always mixed up with silly notions of the crowd”. I
I love America – but Y do the Americans want to die for the Indians in their war with the PRC ? India was created as a state, to be destroyed by the Mongols.
If the US Navy allies with the Indians,they will only doom themselves
Let us look at the disasters of the US Navy – post USS Cole.dindooohindoo
case 1 – The Iranian Capture of US Sailors – January 2016
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_U.S.%E2%80%93Iran_naval_incident
Case 2 – USS Mc Cain – August 2017
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_S._McCain_and_Alnic_MC_collision
Case 3 – USS Fitzgerald – June 2017
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fitzgerald_and…CX_Crystal_collision
What is the formula of doom ?
WITHIN 3 MONTHS OF THE MALABAR INDO-US-NIPPON NAVAL EXERCISES,ID,EST., AFTER THE DATE OF THe EXERCUSE – SOME DISASTER STRIKES THE US NAVY
IN 2015,The NAVAL exercise was undertaken by the three countries in the Bay of Bengal from 15 October 2015 till 19 October 2015
In 3 months thereafter – came the Iranian doom for the US Navy in Case 1 above
The 2017 Malabar exercise was conducted in the Bay of Bengal,in 17 June 2017
Within 3 months thereafter, the US Bavy had the disasters in Case 2 and Case 3
Will the Americans understand ? Before it is too late !
The Indian Navy’s matrix of doom,also follows the Malabar Formulae !
The formula is that the Indian Navy has a disaster 3 MONTHS BEFORE the Malabar exercise or 3 MONTHS AFTER THE MALABAR EXERCISE
Case 1 – October 2017: INS Kadmatt (P29), while stern maneuvering to the dock, collided by the stern with Russian ship Irytsh in Vladivostok on 19 October
2017 Malabar in the Bay of Bengal,during exercise from 17 June 2017 – AND 3 MONTHS THEREAFTER – DOOM STRIKES
Case 2 – November 2015: INS Kochi, a Kolkata-class destroyer, conducted BrahMos missile test firings whilst the airspace remained open to traffic
IN 2015,The NAVAL exercise was undertaken by the three countries,in the Bay of Bengal,from 15 October 2015 till 19 October 2015 – AND 30 DAYS THEREAFTER ….
Case 3 – January 2014: INS Betwa, a Brahmaputra-class guided missile frigate, ran aground and collided with an unidentified object
MALABAR 2013 commenced on 5 November 2013,and continued until 11 November 2013 – AND 1 MONTHS AFTER DOOM STRIKES
Case 4 – February 2014: On 26 February, INS Sindhuratna, a Kilo-class submarine, had a fire detected on board when trials were being conducted which resulted in smoke leading to suffocation and death of two officers.
MALABAR 2013 commenced on 5 November 2013,and continued until 11 November 2013 – AND 3 MONTHS AFTER DOOM STRIKES
Case 5 – A Nuke Sub blows up in Dry Dock in August 2013 (www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/world/asia/ex…naval-submarine.html) all sailors killed
MALABAR 2013 commenced on 5 November 2013,and continued until 11 November 2013 – AND 3 MONTHS BEFORE………….
Case 6 – Disaster with INS Arihant in March 2017 (www.thehindu.com/news/national/ins-ariha…/article22392049.ece)
2017 Malabar in the Bay of Bengal,from 17 June 2017 – AND 3 MONTHS BEFORE………….
AMERICANS CAN NOTE THESE 2 ISSUES OF THE HINDOO NAVY
December 2016: Two sailors died and 14 others were injured when INS Betwa tipped over and crashed on its side while it was undocking in Mumbai.NO WORTHY NATION HAS A SHIP,WHICH TIPPLES OVER IN DRY DOCK
thediplomat.com/2016/12/anatomy-of-an-ac…s-betwa-tipped-over/
THE INDIAN SUPREME COURT ASKED THE INDIAN NAVY TO STOP WIFE SWAPPING ! YES ! WIFE SWAPPING !
http://www.business-standard.com/article/curren…-116051201108_1.html
How can the Americans rely on these clowns to block Malacca or stand up to the Chinese ?
The Americans need to read Beruni !
Sample the words of Al Beruni the great Arab Philosopher on these Hindoos.Beruni spent many years in Hindooosthan with Ghazni and studied the Vedas,Astrology and Sanskrit !
The words of Beruni on the Hindoo – which are PROPHETIC !
The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs.
They are haughty, foolishly vain, self-conceited, and stolid.
This wrong estimate of themselves blinded the Hindus and they assumed a false sense of superiority which ultimately proved their ruin.
Alberuni also tells us that “they (the Hindus) are in a state of confusion, devoid in logical order and in the last instance always mixed up with silly notions of the crowd”.
I love America – but Y do the Americans want to die for the Indians in their war with the PRC ? India was created as a state, to be destroyed by the Mongols.
If the US Navy allies with the Indians,they will only doom themselves
Let us look at the disasters of the US Navy – post USS Cole.dindooohindoo
case 1 – The Iranian Capture of US Sailors – January 2016
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_U.S.%E2%80%93Iran_naval_incident
Case 2 – USS Mc Cain – August 2017
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_S._McCain_and_Alnic_MC_collision
Case 3 – USS Fitzgerald – June 2017
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fitzgerald_and…CX_Crystal_collision
What is the formula of doom ?
WITHIN 3 MONTHS OF THE MALABAR INDO-US-NIPPON NAVAL EXERCISES,ID,EST., AFTER THE DATE OF THe EXERCUSE – SOME DISASTER STRIKES THE US NAVY
IN 2015,The NAVAL exercise was undertaken by the three countries in the Bay of Bengal from 15 October 2015 till 19 October 2015
In 3 months thereafter – came the Iranian doom for the US Navy in Case 1 above
The 2017 Malabar exercise was conducted in the Bay of Bengal,in 17 June 2017
Within 3 months thereafter, the US Bavy had the disasters in Case 2 and Case 3
Will the Americans understand ? Before it is too late !
The Indian Navy’s matrix of doom,also follows the Malabar Formulae !
The formula is that the Indian Navy has a disaster 3 MONTHS BEFORE the Malabar exercise or 3 MONTHS AFTER THE MALABAR EXERCISE
Case 1 – October 2017: INS Kadmatt (P29), while stern maneuvering to the dock, collided by the stern with Russian ship Irytsh in Vladivostok on 19 October
2017 Malabar in the Bay of Bengal,during exercise from 17 June 2017 – AND 3 MONTHS THEREAFTER – DOOM STRIKES
Case 2 – November 2015: INS Kochi, a Kolkata-class destroyer, conducted BrahMos missile test firings whilst the airspace remained open to traffic
IN 2015,The NAVAL exercise was undertaken by the three countries,in the Bay of Bengal,from 15 October 2015 till 19 October 2015 – AND 30 DAYS THEREAFTER ….
Case 3 – January 2014: INS Betwa, a Brahmaputra-class guided missile frigate, ran aground and collided with an unidentified object
MALABAR 2013 commenced on 5 November 2013,and continued until 11 November 2013 – AND 1 MONTHS AFTER DOOM STRIKES
Case 4 – February 2014: On 26 February, INS Sindhuratna, a Kilo-class submarine, had a fire detected on board when trials were being conducted which resulted in smoke leading to suffocation and death of two officers.
MALABAR 2013 commenced on 5 November 2013,and continued until 11 November 2013 – AND 3 MONTHS AFTER DOOM STRIKES
Case 5 – A Nuke Sub blows up in Dry Dock in August 2013 (www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/world/asia/ex…naval-submarine.html) all sailors killed
MALABAR 2013 commenced on 5 November 2013,and continued until 11 November 2013 – AND 3 MONTHS BEFORE………….
Case 6 – Disaster with INS Arihant in March 2017 (www.thehindu.com/news/national/ins-ariha…/article22392049.ece)
2017 Malabar in the Bay of Bengal,from 17 June 2017 – AND 3 MONTHS BEFORE………….
AMERICANS CAN NOTE THESE 2 ISSUES OF THE HINDOO NAVY
December 2016: Two sailors died and 14 others were injured when INS Betwa tipped over and crashed on its side while it was undocking in Mumbai.NO WORTHY NATION HAS A SHIP,WHICH TIPPLES OVER IN DRY DOCK
thediplomat.com/2016/12/anatomy-of-an-ac…s-betwa-tipped-over/
THE INDIAN SUPREME COURT ASKED THE INDIAN NAVY TO STOP WIFE SWAPPING ! YES ! WIFE SWAPPING !
http://www.business-standard.com/article/curren…-116051201108_1.html
How can the Americans rely on these clowns to block Malacca or stand up to the Chinese ?
Like I said above
Again Malabar 2021 started 45 days ago
https://in.usembassy.gov/australia-india-japan-and-u-s-kick-off-exercise-malabar-2021/
AND AS PER MY TIMELINE – IN LESS THAN 90 DAYS – THIS HAPPENED !
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/07/politics/us-submarine-collision-south-china-sea/index.html
I HAVE TO BE DIVINE ! dindooohindoo
LIKE I SAID ABIVE ON 27/05/2021 at 6:14 AM
THE MALABAR WAS HELD ON 12 TH OCTOBER 21
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/second-phase-of-malabar-exercise-begins-in-bay-of-bengal/articleshow/86969544.cms
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/second-phase-of-malabar-exercise-begins-in-bay-of-bengal/articleshow/86969544.cms
THE INDIAN APES USED A SHIP CALLED INS RANVIJAY !
AND THEN YESTERDAY ON THE 18TH OF JANUARY 2022 – THIS HAPPENED ! AS PER MY FORMULA – 3 MONTHS AFTER MALABAR !
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/3-navy-personnel-killed-in-explosion-onboard-ins-ranvir-in-mumbai-report-2715662
THE EXPLOSION WAS ON INS RANVIR !
IT HAD ALMOST THE SAME NAME AS INS RANVIJAY !
IT IS TOP SECRET – SO THE ACTUAL KILLED MAY BE MUCH HIGHER !
IS THERE ANYONE WHO IS MY EQUAL !
Y DO INDIANS HAVE A NAVY AND AN AIRFORCE ? APES CANT SWIM OR FLY PLANES !
LIKE I SAID ABOVE ON 27/05/2021 at 6:14 AM
THE MALABAR WAS HELD ON 12 TH OCTOBER 21
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/second-phase-of-malabar-exercise-begins-in-bay-of-bengal/articleshow/86969544.cms
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/second-phase-of-malabar-exercise-begins-in-bay-of-bengal/articleshow/86969544.cms
THE INDIAN APES USED A SHIP CALLED INS RANVIJAY !
AND THEN YESTERDAY ON THE 18TH OF JANUARY 2022 – THIS HAPPENED ! AS PER MY FORMULA – 3 MONTHS AFTER MALABAR !
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/3-navy-personnel-killed-in-explosion-onboard-ins-ranvir-in-mumbai-report-2715662
THE EXPLOSION WAS ON INS RANVIR !
IT HAD ALMOST THE SAME NAME AS INS RANVIJAY !
IT IS TOP SECRET – SO THE ACTUAL KILLED MAY BE MUCH HIGHER !
IS THERE ANYONE WHO IS MY EQUAL !
Y DO INDIANS HAVE A NAVY AND AN AIRFORCE ? APES CANT SWIM OR FLY PLANES !
The Indian Navy had its disaster on the 18th ( as I listed above) !
And then,this happened !
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/25/asia/us-f-35-crash-recovery-south-china-sea-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
The US Navy has to wash its hands off the Indians !
The Indians will sink to the bottom of the Indian Ocean – and the Americans do NOT want to be with them !