To Avoid China Backlash, India Turns Down This Request From Australia China Backlash, India Turns Australiaand Japan Four officials from India, Australia and Japan told Reuters that India blocked the proposal and suggested that Canberra send officers to watch the exercises in the Bay of Bengal from the decks of the three participating countries' warships, instead. Both the United States and Japan supported the idea of involving Australia, seeing it as a natural partner in the effort to balance China's growing might, the four officials said. But Delhi is worried that China will step up activities in the Indian Ocean where it is building infrastructure inIndia's anxiety about being encircled, according to Reuters' sources who remained unnamed. Indian navy officials say there have been at least six submarine deployments by China in the Indian Ocean since 2013 and that Chinese submarines have been docking in Sri Lanka and its long-time ally Pa...
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