China cultivates ties with India’s neighbors in containment strategy

Special to WorldTribune.com

Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com

China is a country obsessed with the idea that it has been “contained” by an insidious United States through a system of alliance with China’s neighboring nations.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari with Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2011. /Reuters
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari with Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2011. /Reuters

But it seems that China is doing a “containment” scheme of its own to encircle its arch nemesis in the region, India.

India is feeling unmistakable pressure as Beijing vigorously courts most of New Delhi’s major neighbors, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, the Maldives and Sri Lanka, for a strategic alliance to counter what Beijing calls “Indian regional hegemony.”

But what has spooked the Indian security establishment more is China’s space and satellite projects with India’s neighboring countries.

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