Why India needs the Great Nicobar Project — new great games in the Eastern Indian Ocean
The first is the nascent ambition of the Indonesian political establishment to impose a levy on ships passing through the Strait of Malacca. It's something their ancestors tried some one thousand years ago by trying to establish their monopoly on navigation passing through this area, which the Chola rulers of India foiled determinedly by occupying parts of Indonesia and Malaysia.…
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