Till now India’s adversary was creating ripples in Indian waters with its submarines and warships’ forays into the Indian Ocean, but this time India has directly challenged China on its own turf through its subtle but smart naval diplomacy.Ĭhina's silence on the gifting of INS Kirpan to Vietnam may indicate that they are not bothered and not shaken over the development, but commentary seem to convey that the Chinese are perturbed over the Indian move as it enhances the threat perception from the Vietnamese navy aided by its archrival India. With the gifting of a frontline missile warship INS Kirpan to Vietnam, India has taken its naval diplomacy to a new level and added a new dimension to it. This has rattled the strategic establishment in China. India’s unique warship gifting diplomacy, which was confined to the Indian Ocean, has now expanded to the Pacific Ocean, in the Chinese backyard of the South China Sea.
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