India's perceptible and calibrated geopolitical 'China Push-Back' strategy, in a game of counter-pressure points against China, is perceptibly visible in 2024 with India's recent moves on China's 'Core Issues' of Tibet, Taiwan and South China Sea.
China has designated Tibet, Taiwan and South China Sea as 'Core Issues' for China's national security and its sovereignty claims over these three entities. China has also asserted that China is willing to go to war, in case Chinses sovereignty claims over these three is threatened from any quarter.
India's geopolitical push-back against China on its three 'Core Issues' is therefore a welcome departure from long years of Nehruvian Indian 'China-Timidity' policies whose legacy hangover was pervasive in India's Foreign Office Mandarins, even in the initial years of Modi Government.
India's renewed vigor to indulge in a game of counter-pressure points against China emerges from a combination of global geopolitical factors in India's favor and India's vigorous over-drive in the last 10 years under present political dispensation led by PM Modi to reduce India's war-preparedness asymmetries against China Threat to India, emanating from over-militarized China Occupied Tibet.
India's Tibet-policy has undergone a change in recent years. India now is no longer apologetic that a 'Tibet Government-in -Exile' functions from the border Indian State of Himachal Pradesh.
Recently last month was the conspicuous visit of a US Congressional Delegation comprising senior political leaders for talks with HH The Dalai Lama and the Tibet-Government-in-exile at Dharamsala
Talks focused on Tibet's self-determination and the forthcoming legislation passed by US Congress on Tibet's political future.
Notable was also the fact that the 10Member US Congressional Delegation made an official call on Indian PM Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
China officially protested on the above developments. That it did so, is obvious that the geopolitical message has gone home.
Taiwan and India in recent years have seen remarkable political and trade inter-actions. These extend from India permitting Taiwan to open additional Trade Offices in India, an euphemism for Consular Offices and collaboration in 'Chip-Manufactures' critical for advanced military systems.
Some time ago, India's three Former Service Chiefs were permitted to travel to Taiwan to participate in a Taiwan think-tank 'Security Seminar'.
Significant, is the enlarged Taiwan-India negotiations and steps towards Taiwan's participation in India's ambitious program of setting up global scale semi-conductors 'chip manufacturing' in India. Taiwan leads the global trade in chips-manufactures.
On the third China's Core issue of South China Sea. India has come a long way ahead when an Indian Naval Chief was asked to resign by the previous political dispensation for remarks on South Cina Sea disputes.
PM Modi's 'Act East' policy is not only limited to political relations with East Asian countries but also geopolitical moves of rotational deployments of Indian Navy in South China Sea for exercises with friendly Navies,
India's most significant geopolitical move in relation to China's South China Sea 'Core Issue' has been the sale of three batteries of BRAHMOS Cruise Missiles to the Philippines. India-Philippines security cooperation is on the increase.
Philippines recently has come under intensified Chinese military coercion and aggression in South China Sea.
China rightfully has no grounds to protest against India when for decades China had been indulging in heavy arms-buildup of Pakistan Army against India.
Finally, in the 21st Century, where short of war, where China has been long playing power-games of creation of strategic pressure-points against its adversaries like India, extending from Pakistan to its 'String of Pearls' strategy in Indian Ocean, India's geopolitical push-back against China on its critical 'Core Issues' is a welcome policy development, under present political dispensation.
India has belatedly recognized after decades of 'China Timidity' policies that China's aggressive moves against India can be checkmated only by creation of Indian geopolitical counter-pressure points against China's 'Core Issues' and which finds resonance both at the global level and also more pointedly at the Indo Pacific level.
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