- Presence of Indian Navy’s INS Shivalik missile frigate in China’s Qingdao seen as a milestone in increasing strategic trust between two countries’ navies.
- Development seen as India’s indication on its desire to establish strong navy-to-navy ties between India and China
- Event in China was to mark 65th anniversary celebrations for China’s powerful PLA, 7 countries’ navies took part in exercise
- No ship from US came for the exercise as the country protested Japan’s exclusion from the event.
- Exercise include drill in which India, China and Indonesia took part in an anti-hijacking exercise , Shivalik ship India’s high-tech stealth missile frigate.
- PLA officials term Shivalik ‘a very strong’ frigate with ‘powerful weapons’, travelled 4,500 miles from Port Blair to take part in exercise in Qingdao
- China and India work our modalities for another joint exercise by 2014 end, it may coincide with India-US Malabar maritime exercise , Japan may take part.
Exams Perspective:
- India China Bilateral Relations
- INS Shivalik
- China’s Bluewater Navy
- 65th Anniversary of China’s Navy