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The rise of China in Asia’s maritime security architecture is playing a determinant factor for India to define its strategic interests and review its maritime policy. For the first time Indian government document formally acknowledged the implications of the evolving and increasingly accepted concept of the “Indo-Pacific” on India’s maritime security. The geographic extent of this concept with its multiple variations essentially brings the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific — theaters of geo-political competition — into one strategic arc.
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