NEW DELHI – Perturbed with rising Chinese Navy presence in the Indian Ocean India and US largest ships are displaying the power show in the Indian Ocean.
India-US-Japan joint Naval exercise with around 15 warships, two submarines and scores of fighter jets, surveillance aircraft and helicopters, comes at a time when Indian and Chinese troops are locked in a tense face-off near the Sikkim-Bhutan-Tibet tri-junction since mid-June.
The Indian Navy has also recorded an “unusual surge” in the number of Chinese warships and submarines entering the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) over the last two months, in a clear indication of muscle-flexing by China here after achieving what it believes is near-dominance in the contentious South China Sea, as earlier reported by TOI.