India's Strategy in the South China Sea by Tridib Chakraborti Mohor Chakraborty

Author:Tridib Chakraborti, Mohor Chakraborty [Tridib Chakraborti, Mohor Chakraborty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, American, Asian American Studies, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9780429648113
Google: OTDLDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-01-20T03:50:12+00:00

4 Indian strategy and the military dimension of the South China Sea dispute

By virtue of its unique geographical location in the Indo-Pacific region, India has historically acted as a passive balancer to China’s expansion in Southeast Asia, in the sense that the kingdoms of Kambuja1 and Champa2 were credited with “evectional claims to the gratitude of the Indian people” for having barred the land route of Chinese expansion for a thousand years. This claim has been substantiated by the historian, K.M. Panikkar as he contended:

If ever the expanding Empire of China did not extend its authority to Singapore and if the Indian Ocean remains today what its name indicates, it is due to the resistance which Kambuja and Champa put up against the continuous pressure of China.

(Panikkar, 1960: 96)

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