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In recent times, India strengthens its maritime cooperation with Southeast Asia with the aim of increasing India’s influence in the region as well as to counter China. India’s humanitarian assistance in various crises such as the tsunami relief operation of 2004 was well received across the regional countries. Similarly, India is conducting a bilateral naval exercise with regional countries such as India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) since 2002, India-Singapore naval exercise (SIMBEX) from 1994, and India and Malaysia jointly conduct PASEX exercise too. Besides, India participated in a multilateral naval exercise like the Western Pacific Naval Symposium (WPNS) with the Southeast Asian countries. India is strengthening its maritime cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries with a view to countering Chinese hegemony in the Indo-Pacific. With the ‘open seas protection’ strategy of China, which covers the areas from the western Pacific to the African coast, the so-called Indo-Pacific is now the Chinese area of influence. However, India’s maritime engagement with the Southeast Asian countries has never been considered as security-oriented partnership; rather it is a more friendship exercise. With China’s complete dominance, in the Southeast Asian water-body is looming large and Southeast Asian countries are looking for hard power cooperation with friendly countries like India, New Delhi needs to enhance its maritime cooperation with the regional countries with more security-oriented policy objectives.
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