#India: Launching two Aircraft carrier battle groups to counter #PRC string of pearls. Kamran Bokhari, director of Analytical Development at the Newlines Institute for Strategy & Policy, o@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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🗓️ 9 February 2023
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#India: Launching two Aircraft carrier battle groups to counter #PRC string of pearls. Kamran Bokhari, director of Analytical Development at the Newlines Institute for Strategy & Policy, o@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-politics-india-government-china-8d27aecf279cc2e8c52acebc63f74726
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Dash with my colleague Gordon Chang. You will or |
| 0:39.5 | recalls the summer of 22 Sri Lanka and anarchy, the collapse of the government. And suddenly, |
| 0:48.0 | what was dubbed a Chinese spy ship turned up and docked at a newly built port that nobody |
| 0:53.5 | much uses. China off the coast of India. India is responding in some fashion. Two, not |
| 0:59.7 | one, but two aircraft carriers. One domestically built the Vikrant, INS Vikrant, and the other |
| 1:06.4 | a rebuilt Soviet aircraft carrier, the INS Vikramaditya. We welcome our colleague, Comron |
| 1:12.6 | Bokari, director of analytical development at the New Line Institute for Strategy and |
| 1:17.4 | Policy. Comron India remains in between worlds, but it's building aircraft carriers to answer |
| 1:25.0 | the Chinese string of pearls, a building across the Indo-Pacific. Do you see that India |
| 1:31.5 | getting into this tussle with China is promising? Does it lend value to Japan's sudden conversion |
| 1:41.4 | to military budget? To South Korea talking to NATO, to Augustine Australia. Is India entering |
| 1:47.0 | into that circle around China? Good day to you. |
| 1:50.5 | Hi, John. Hi, Gordon. So, yeah, I mean, look, India has taken, you know, number five place |
| 1:58.2 | in terms of, you know, the largest economies of the world. So when your economy grows and |
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