China’s Strategic Interest in Indian Ocean Region

In recent years China’s growing influence is seen in relative term to those of other states and have outgrown the expectations of even its own leaders. Based on its enhanced global position, Chinese foreign and security policies have shown unprecedented assertiveness. It is important for the international community including India to reassess China’s strategic culture Till very recently, China had formally referred to Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang province as ‘core interests’. It is indicative of its assertion of national sovereignty and territorial integrity and implied that it would not be open to compromise on this issue. China’s ever expanding ‘core interests’ is already leading to tensions in East and South China Sea is being seen as the likely cause of instability in East Asia.