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    United States and India signed Naval fuel agreement

    My post was with reference to "teaming up" with the evil, imperialist US which perhaps has hegemonistic designs over India. I talked of acquiring own muscle rather than depending on US to fend off China. Even if Pak offers Karachi to China for setting up a naval base, we should keep US at arm's...
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    United States and India signed Naval fuel agreement

    If India controls Indian Ocean, still she cannot control trade thru international waters.. no country can. Can India deny right to free passage to any merchant/ cruise ship belonging to any country or collect some kind of toll-tax? If you mean "muscle-flexing" by "controlling", well for that...
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    United States and India signed Naval fuel agreement

    Policing far-flung areas of international water is very expensive. It is not in our capacity nor do we need it. Our economic & strategic interest is limited to 200 nauts from shore. So long as our right to free passage through international waters is not challenged we need not lose sleep...
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    United States and India signed Naval fuel agreement

    Nope. Malacca is certainly not on India's trade route. It affects mainly Malay, Indonesia & Singapore..the pirates' menace has also subsided. China also doesn't attach much importance to it. It is far from India's exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles.
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    United States and India signed Naval fuel agreement

    Russia is still not a multi-party democracy like India but it is now open to market economy with fetters like China. Private-Public partnership is encouraged. Rest I agree with.
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    United States and India signed Naval fuel agreement

    I don't understand how we are concerned with cape of good hope. As for Malaccan Strait, yes, it has strategic importance but China's own ASEAN partners, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia will take care of it. East Asian nations are not India's major trade or industrial partners. Putting up a naval...
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    United States and India signed Naval fuel agreement

    File Photo of USS Boxer LHD travels at an offshore location in Goa in this October 29, 2006 [Not attached] by Ajay Banerjee Three days after a top Admiral from the US invited India to join a four-nation grouping to patrol areas like the South China Sea, New Delhi has outrightly rejected the...
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    United States and India signed Naval fuel agreement

    This agreement will benefit only US Navy in entrenching it's presence in IOR. Indian Navy will never go beyond gulf of Aden. Sell out go US imperialist design.
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