(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: China in Indian Ocean

Topic: China in Indian Ocean

Guest:

CDR Abhijit Singh (Retd.), (Head, Maritime Policy Initiative, ORF)
Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha (Retd., Defence Expert)
Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, (Former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs)

Topic Description:

The P-8I Poseidon spy planes of the Indian Navy recently detected Chinese amphibious warship Xian-32 in the southern Indian Ocean region earlier in September. Photographs of ship were clicked by the surveillance aircraft before it entered Sri Lankan waters. The P-8I tracked another Chinese frigate that is part of its anti-piracy escort task force deployed in the Gulf of Aden to provide security to Chinese merchant vessels from Somali sea pirates. This comes almost a fortnight after Indian intelligence agencies warned that China was allegedly spying on Indian Naval bases in the Indian Ocean through its advanced surveillance ships in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.