As I mentioned in my previous entry, New Delhi isn’t sitting idly by as China is busy enlarging its strategic footprints around India. Another example of how India’s defence establishment is becoming increasingly China-centric (compared with even the recent past, when it was obsessed with Pakistan) is the visit from tomorrow by Defence Minister A.K. Antony to South Korea—the first time an Indian defence minister has undertaken an official trip to Seoul.
It won’t just be Beijing watching closely—Japan will be too, considering its complicated relationship with South Korea (the Japanese won’t have forgotten, after all, how in 2005 South Korea led the ‘Coffee Club’ of more than 40 countries against the so-called G-4 bid of Japan, India, Germany and Brazil for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council).
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