India and the West at Sea: Countering China through Maritime Cooperation

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A blogpost on the website of the Geoeconomics Group.

 

 

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A blogpost about maritime economic development as a key avenue for building relations between India and the West, and a way for them to jointly counter Chinese dominance in the maritime domain.

The blogpost discusses the apparent rapprochement between India and China at the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, China. It uses examples from the maritime domain to assert that said rapprochement should not be exaggerated, due to the antagonistic nature of Sino-Indian relations.

Moreover, the blogpost illustrates that India, the EU, and the US share an interest in reducing strategic dependence on China in the maritime economy, most notably in the shipping and shipbuilding sectors. It discusses how this shared objective is an opportunity for Western powers to support the diversification of the global maritime economy and reinforce their relationship with India at the same time.