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(Opinion) South China Sea: Modi, Not Duterte, Is China's Problem

2017-06-27 09:37:22       source:Forbes

June 26, 2017


Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s foreign policy flip-flops aren’t a big threat to China’s ambitions to write the navigation rules for the South China Sea. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s high profile diplomacy is, something investors should keep a close eye on, as it complicates the geopolitical risks in the region.


India doesn't  border the South China Sea. But it has very much been involved in the ongoing disputes between China on the one side, and the US and its allies. “We are already working together to address the existing and emerging strategic and security challenges that affect both our nations—in Afghanistan, West Asia, the large maritime space of the Indo-Pacific, the new and unanticipated threats in cyberspace,” stated Modi in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published on the day he made his official visit in the White House.


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