India occupies a strategic position in the Indian Ocean Region, as it sits between its main bottlenecks. In particular India controls the Western gateway into the Malacca strait through the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. This strait is China’s main strategic weakness, which makes this choke point of critical importance in the possible confrontation between the US and China. In this video we will analyze US and China’s reliance on this strait and we will try to answer two major questions. How does India control China’s biggest weakness? How does this influence a possible US – China conflict?
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Check my previous videos:
Australia’s Maritime Strategy: https://youtu.be/RhN9C4yPALI
The Strategic Importance of Afghanistan: https://youtu.be/k1j_B6PiPjU
The Malacca Dilemma: https://youtu.be/PJReTyTbbZ4
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Table of content:
00:00 3 Reasons of India’s importance in the Indian Ocean
02:54 Trade, Energy supplies and Force projection
05:02 US’ and China’s bases in the Indian Ocean
07:22 The Andaman and Nicobar Islands
09:16 Why India consider China a threat
10:20 Why India consider the US an ally
11:00 How India could influence the US China conflict in 3 ways
13:46 Conclusion
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china is a bully, india will always have problems with china ???
china makes enemies through it's bully boy nature !!!
Indian Government is developing Singapore like port city on Nicobar Islands ( The project is just started ) . Nicobar Project is important for Strategic and Economic goals .
Pakistan says no
Except for the border conflicts in the Stone Age, there are almost no contradictions between China and India. The common progress and common development of the two countries is in the interests of the two peoples. The Indian media keeps exaggerating the China threat theory and clamoring for war with China. Is it because Western countries are funding these media?
The Somali map at 1:09 is in correct. Please check with UN for the correct Somali Map. It has a shape that looks like a 7. Please in your future videos, use the correct Somali Map. Or Somalis will get offended by your video.
This channel: Indians control the Malacca Straits, China is doomed!
Indonesia: wha… huh? What? Guys you seeing this?
Singapore: yeah no idea wat they talking
Malaysia: Indians. Lol.
Well, CCP has a good relationship with Pakistan and also gives the financial support too. Besides the Iranian railway project will be made by Chinese company.
That's CCP's backup plan.
Use proper map of India brother
Thanx for video my freind please use India's proper map
US is a partner not an ally of India
This is why India China war won't happen. China won't survive without oil from middle east. China is already in checkmate.
Don't listen to the incitement and provocation of the western media. India and China can only maintain a state of peace, confrontation and division, which is not good for anyone. In order to cater to the West, China has the ability to cut off the Ganges River, the sacred river of India, in the Himalayas if India uses its head in the Malacca Strait. Don't be silly! China and India need friendship to have a future.
China and Thailand are building a new canal so no need for Malacca Strait and cuts off 12,000km India will lose
Watching this from Port Blair 🤓
India must also acquire a nuclear submarine which was recently approved by AUKUS it will be a big boost to Indias counter offensive to Chinese aggression in the Indian ocean, should India would have budgetary problem the QUAD will provide it to them they are formidable allies 🙏🙏
The congress govt of India.. stupidity gifted Coco island to mayanmar.
I don't know why they didn't care !!! May be bcz it's far… They didn't even care about the aksai chin region. When they were questioned ….jahar lal nehru the congress govt PM replied… What we would do with a barren land !!!
bro your indian map is wrong i guess you must mention the right one also have a look on google maps as well
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bro i appreciate that you are explaining indian line of defence but i request you to display proper official map of india as per indian govt.
Free illegally Indian occupied jammu and kashmir Pakistan 🇵🇰 ♥️ 😋
India’s role will be lance the big haemorrhoid in Chinas anus, Tibet and Xinjiang , and at sea in Malacca . In exchange USA will give India a free hand and assistance for India to seize Pak nukes and split Paksitan into three republics. Xi s next role will be larking
This is the first time I hear that India controls the Malacca’s strait. I thought it’s within Malaysia continental shelf😅
Indian government recently planned to invest 10Billion $ in Andaman Nicobar islands to make another world class sea port and navy headquarter
This nonsense. Can none of these Youtube channels read maps? Beyond the fact that ships can in fact sail over the ocean and instead of using the Malacca straits can sail south of Sumatra and go up through the Sunda Straits, something India can do nothing about, do Youtubers not realize that this straits is actually more important to South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan in terms of trade than to the PRC? Guess what YouTube, those places get most of their oil from the ME also, and also need that waterway to access South Asia, the ME, Africa, and Europe. IN fact, given those are all actual or nominal islands (cause nothing is crossing from SK into NK), the sea route is more important for them than for a country with plentiful land borders. So what would India do? Check every ship and make sure they don't lie about their destination? Its honestly silly. This is of course ignoring how such an act by india would be violating the sea transit rights of neutral vessels and neutral countries, and thus a violation of international law.
India is countering china with 'Necklace of diamonds'. I think u dont know about that. India is not behind in making agressive startegies now. It is very proactive and smart now
Your explanations , WONDERFUL SIR ,
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Today 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 announced the construction of strongest naval base at nicobar island to only counter 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳 aggression and expansionist propaganda
Stop ! Stop being foolish ! India does not control the striaghts of malacca ! It is controlled by Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore ! Stop feeding miss information ! 😢 I like India to play a major role in Indian ocean ! But lying about it's ability is unacceptable ! Stop bragging !
Indonesia can also block the chinese trade route if china causes issues in the south china sea!
India is a terrible partner. They never take a side on anything. Like that person you’ll never get a straight answer from. Shady😮
china has built the blue water navy to control the indian ocean as well ?china will take over the andaman and nicobar islands by its fleet of amphibious landing ships if india want to remain hostile
Instead of siding with a country so far away,who many times shy away from supporting us in international issue, it would be better if china and India has good relations. Jai Hind
This is what pushed China to Iran and Saudis friends, that China can find an alternate route via Iran and Turkmenistan and Central Asian countries. Earlier China tried the same with Pakistan with CPEC, but given Pakistan's current political and economic conditions, China went to Iran.
As long as you don't disturb India, India has no problem what you're doing in your own country and neighbourhood,, – Indian Foreign Policy-
9:13– the Side of India 😁
India is still working on getting everyone to poop in toilets. India doesn’t control anything. The USA does.
You make a map of yourself and present it as map of India? If you don't know anything go something else to make a living
Britisher had once richest country, obsly they looted all wealth of india-world's richest country but they maintain bcz they had control Indian ocean bcz india was colony. Who ever control Indian ocean rule world in economy.
CCP watching the video:👀👀
USE THE CORRECT MAP OF INDIA 🇮🇳
Map incorrect india 🇮🇳
My gosh, the graphics on this video is Tier-A
No, Malacca Strait is NOT China's main weakness. China's main weakness is its inability to co-exist with other countries, other races, political ideologies and government.
China needs everything to run according to its blueprint for it to success – that include people from other countries speaking Chinese languages (namely Mandarin), follow Chinese political systems (mainly the Communist system) and think at level of a Chinese.
In this video, they already stated that China imports large amount of oil through the Strait of Malacca which is why it tries to control it, and therefore Malacca Strait is its weakness. I could agree to a certain extend – because China also tries to bypass this weakness by launching the BRI project which cuts through Asia to reach Middle East. However, China does not require to be so possessive of Strait of Malacca IF it learned to co-exist with other nations, which it had failed to do since 1960s.