With US on its side, India shifts foreign policy on China

Tensions between India and China has increased  after New Delhi extended invitation to a leading Chinese dissident Dolkun Isa to participate in a conference in Dharamshala next week .

• Xinjiang: China’s Achilles Heel
• US to check China's ambitions in Asia Pacific  through Xinjiang?
• India's response  to  China's UN veto
• India's response to China CPEC project in Pakistan  
• Washington multilateral diplomacy with Vietnam,Philippines etc to safeguard South China Sea

The shift in India's policy towards China is not a sudden development but it is strategically devised to check China's ambitions in Asia Pacific but is being visualised that Modi government acted on China's move to shield Pathankot terror attack mastermind Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aggressive approach against China has many dimensions .First, India being unsatisfied with  Beijing's argument  for blocking the proposal at the UN to designate Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar a terrorist.
Modi government  granted  visas to four Chinese Uyghur nationals including a Germany-based Uyghur activist Dolkun Isa, labelled as terrorist by the Chinese government, to visit India for  an international conference  in Dharmshala ,Himachal Pradesh,which will be addessed by Dalai Lama .The  conference is being organised by the US-based 'Initiatives for China' Uyghurs and many other Chinese dissidents in exile are expected to attend and discuss democratic transformation in China and the agenda is to seek transition to democracy in the communist country.


Dolkun Isa is an Uyghur democratic activist from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the occupation of China, also known as East Turkestan,and is fighting for freedom on the lines of Tibet.  

Meanwhile,Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's stated "What I want to point out is that Dolkun is a terrorist in red notice of the Interpol and Chinese police. Bringing him to justice is due obligation of relevant countries."

The prevailing situation in the world  forced India to change its  foreign and military policy ,Second, China getting cosy with Pakistan on economic and strategic projects  to fulfil its desire of increasing  Chinese plan to build a $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, including roads, railways and pipelines, in Kashgar, Chinese Xinjiang province and running through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir till Karachi.
Xinjiang is China’s Achilles Heel  as it neighbouring eight  countries ie Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan.China’s oil-rich and ethnically sensitive far-western  province of Xinjiang attaches huge importance  to country's economic prospects because of its strategic location vis-a vis Central and South Asia . China is thus facing an insurgency by Uighur militants in Xinjiang and was in the news in 2009 and 2015 beacuse of the clashes between the two major ethnic groups, Uyghurs and the Han Chinese that  left around 200 people dead in Urumqi.
With China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Beijing will get a free trade zone in Pakistan's Gwadar port and access to the Arabian Sea. New Pakistani roads will open up routes for Chinese goods into Europe and the Middle East from landlocked Xinjiang.


Third: China in Asia Pacific
India  and US has joined hands to check China's ambitions in Asia Pacific  through Xinjiang
To halt China's rise in the region , United States has intensified diplomacy with its allies like India, Philippines, Japan ,South Korea , Indonesia, Malyasia  and Vietnam etc  on maritime  and air power.The United States' interest in the Spratlys is basically in protecting freedom of navigation on the high seas, and putting a check on China's ability to carve up the Pacific. The US has thus taking forceful steps  to control China's attempts to seize control of one of the world's busiest open waterways.


India is changing foreign and military policy as US and India shares convergence of interests in Asia Pacific with Obama administration aiming to rebalance the region  and India’s new Act East Policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.With this aim in view, India and the United States have agreed in principle to sign a Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMA) to provide supplies and fuel to each other’s armed forces from their bases

Thus adopting new operational strategies  in Asia Pacific,Washington  has  started growing security network bilaterally and multilaterally with allies and partner countries  including India .

As China is now contemplating  creating   nuclear power platforms which would allow for more rapid construction of illegal artificial islands and military facilities in the South China Sea. Platforms that will help  fuel “lighthouses, seawater desalination, rescue and relief equipment, defensive weapons and airports and harbors on islands in the South China Sea.”

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter  announced  RIMPAC 2016 naval exercises off Hawaii this summer in light of China's aggressive actions in the South China Sea.The biannual RIMPAC, or Rim of the Pacific, is an international training exercise hosted by the U.S. and set to take place in June and July in which 50 countries will participate.

The Asia-Pacific was "the most consequential region for America's future," and it "has generally been an area of peace and stability," primarily because of the U.S. presence. "That's what we aim to keep going. It's not about keeping China down," he said.