ASEAN
BRAHMOS MISSILE
China
India
India-Philippines
PHILIPPINE SEA
Philippines
Quad
South China Sea
The undercurrents buffeting the international order are gathering momentum. The so-called liberal international order ended two decades ago. The post-Cold War era has also ended, with the current geopolitical trend defined by the economic rise of China and her aggressive expansionist policies. Whether the new international order will be based on a multipolar architecture or a plurilateral architecture that provides stability, is still work in progress. The most potent driver of this restructuring of the international order is China’s attempt to create an alternative one, in which China is the global hegemon or at the least a rival one to USA, with vassal states in her orbit.
China has so far succeeded in creating considerable security concern in East Asia by her belligerent actions in the South China Sea [SCS], in pursuit of her hegemonic ambition. This has led to a critical mass of countries who all have decided that future threats to their countries emanate from China. This situation has set in motion countervailing trends. It is instructive to analyse these geopolitical trends by following strategic high technology weapons transfers from one country to another.
The China-Pakistan strategic nexus started soon after the 1962 India-China war and has today solidified to an extent that these two countries call each other “iron brothers”.
China’s transfers of high-tech weapons...
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