String of Pearls (Indian Ocean) in the context of "Littoral South Asia"

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ā­ Core Definition: String of Pearls (Indian Ocean)

The String of Pearls is a geopolitical hypothesis proposed by United States political researchers in 2004. The term refers to the network of Chinese military and commercial facilities and relationships along its sea lines of communication which extend from the Chinese mainland to Port Sudan in the Horn of Africa. The sea lines run through several major maritime choke points such as the Strait of Mandeb, the Strait of Malacca, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Lombok Strait as well as other strategic maritime centres in Somalia and the littoral South Asian countries of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Maldives.

Many commentators in India believe this plan, together with the Chinaā€“Pakistan Economic Corridor and other parts of China's Belt and Road Initiative under Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping, is a threat to India's national security. Such a system would encircle India and threaten its power projection, trade, and potentially territorial integrity. Furthermore, China's support for India's traditional enemy of Pakistan and its Gwadar Port is viewed as a threat, compounded by fears that China may develop an overseas naval military base in Gwadar, which could allow China to conduct expeditionary warfare in the Indian Ocean Region. From the east, the deep-water port of Kyaukpyu is also viewed with a similar concern. The first comprehensive academic analyses of Chinese plan and its security implications for New Delhi was undertaken in February 2008 by an active-duty Indian naval officer. Antedating China's anti-piracy naval deployment in the Indian Ocean beginning in December 2008, and the ensuing acquisition of its first overseas military base in Djibouti in August 2017, his analysis predicting China's "permanent military presence" in the Indian Ocean is viewed by Indian policymakers as prescient. Accordingly, India has since been making moves of various types to counter the threat.

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šŸ‘‰ String of Pearls (Indian Ocean) in the context of Littoral South Asia

Littoral South Asia or Maritime South Asia is the region of the Indian subcontinent which borders the Indian Ocean. It includes the South Asian republics of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, as well as the South Asian island countries of the Maldives and Sri Lanka. It is contested between China and India as a part of what is sometimes referred to as an alleged "String of Pearls" strategy by China to contain India. This has resulted in an increasing maritime collaboration between the United States and India.

The effects of climate change, such as flooding, are also expected to cause hundreds of millions of dollars of damage per year to coastal cities and potentially create tens of millions of climate migrants.

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String of Pearls (Indian Ocean) in the context of Sea lines of communication

Sea lines of communication (abbreviated as SLOC) is a term describing the primary maritime routes between ports, used for trade, logistics and naval forces. It is generally used in reference to naval operations to ensure that SLOCs are open, or in times of war, to close them. The importance of SLOCs in geopolitics was described in Nicholas J. Spykman's America's Strategy in World Politics published in 1942.

In the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars, the SLOCs were, for the most part, in the control of the British Navy. When the British lost control of them during the Revolution, the result was the fall of Yorktown and its biggest army and, ultimately, the war. In the Napoleonic era, maintaining belligerence throughout, the British embargoed and blockaded any country associated with Napoleon, which created large economic hardships and dislocations that played a part in people of France becoming disenchanted with Napoleon.

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Hypothesis → United States → Political science → People's Liberation Army → Sea lines of communication → Mainland China → Port Sudan → Horn of Africa → Choke point → Bab-el-Mandeb → Strait of Malacca → Strait of Hormuz → Lombok Strait → Somalia → Littoral South Asia → Pakistan → Sri Lanka → Bangladesh → Maldives → Chinaā€“Pakistan Economic Corridor → Belt and Road Initiative → Chinese Communist Party → General Secretary of the Communist Party of China → Xi Jinping → National security → Power projection → Territorial integrity → Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts → Gwadar Port → Overseas military base → Expeditionary warfare → Kyaukpyu →