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Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 13

A web talk on “Indo Pacific: A Construct in Offing” was organised by the Department of National Security Studies, Central University of Jammu, today.

Highlighting the strategic significance of the Indo-Pacific region Prof Rakesh Datta from the Department of Defence and National Security Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, said that the geopolitical construct of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ region is not only related to the foreign policy strategies of major powers but also has serious implications for a rising power like India.

Stating that there was a need of maintaining balance of power by containing China in the Indo-Pacific through India’s rise in the region, he added that this region is becoming the most attractive destination for foreign direct investment, trade and business

Prof Datta stressed that there was a desperate need for cooperation in areas such as defence, information sharing, counter-terrorism and peacekeeping and in the given scenario, where the common threads of geopolitics, geoeconomics and geostrategy are closely intermeshed across the Indian and Pacific oceans, this new conceptualization needs to be accorded deeper consideration.

In his presidential remarks, Vice Chancellor of Jammu Central University, Prof Ashok Aima,  shared Chinese discernibility in trapping countries through debt diplomacy and was equivocal about bursting of Chinese bubble in the near future with the rise of market forces.

Prof Rasal Singh, head of the department at Jammu University gave his initial remarks on the relevant theme and highlighted the changing role of India internationally and how India is seen as a global partner by major powers at present.