You are not PARANOID at all, but 'tis better to simply downgrade to a CONCERN.
The request would be very hard to counter or simply ignore given the variables in play, as also what one can conjure. I do not know whether India has similar equipment, but one possibility would be to escort them with our best on board as observers/ participants, and divers. And they be held on a tight schedule. Whatever be it India could end up revealing a lot about a lot of things. On the issue of offering assistance we did not REACH OUT of our own volition. Every opportunity is always in play, and a nation** stemming, as also stammering, and thrumming (Dil jalta hai) about its lineage of a 5,000 year and counting civilization could be more proactive. ** netas, pitas, and batatas advisors, policy planners, intellectuals artists, and so forth This is no mere kator re nhajji! Venantius J Pinto On 3/14/14, Tim de Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wondering if anyone else shares this view - or am I just paranoid . . > . > > The Chinese conducted some naval military exercises in early Feb in the > Eastern Indian Ocean. > Concerns were voiced at the time by a number of people e.g. > Chinese Naval Exercise In Eastern Indian Ocean Sends Mixed Signals > (http://thediplomat.com/2014/02/chinese-naval-exercise-in-eastern-indian-ocean-sends-mixed-signals/) > > extracts copied below. > > Now Chinese warships want to enter the Bay of Bengal to search for this > missing plane. > > Is there something deeper and more sinister to this story of this missing > plane? > > ---------------- > > Extracts: > > These exercises by contrast are potentially far more provocative for India, > Australia, and ASEAN states (even though Southeast Asia isn't bereft of > pirates by any means). For India, a Chinese approach in the eastern Indian > Ocean raises anxieties about the reach of China's navy. India regards the > eastern Indian Ocean-the space between the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and > Sumatra-as its domain. Any Chinese exercises in this area, particularly > combat simulations, will not be taken lightly by New Delhi. > . > . > Indian observers appear to be more concerned by the exercise. One Indian > commentator, Srikanth Kondapalli, notes that the exercise sends a signal to > India that China "can come closer to the Andaman & Nicobar joint command > through Lombok, and not just through Malacca." He additionally notes that > China could be testing the waters in the eastern Indian Ocean, including its > ability to operate some distance away from its bases in the region. > The Hindu's Ananth Krishnan notes that the exercises could also reflect > China's desire to hedge its reliance on the Strait of Malacca-a major > waterway for Middle Eastern oil and other imports. 80 percent of China's > fossil fuel imports travel via the strait. Beijing has already invested > heavily in Pakistan, Myanmar, and Bangladesh to better connect itself with > the Indian Ocean. Generally speaking, China hasn't seen the less-trafficked > straits of Lombok, Sunda, and Makassar to the south as vital to its > so-called "Malacca dilemma," but this could be changing. > -- +++++++++++++ Venantius J Pinto
