]Virtual inauguration and hand-over of numerous projects financed by the government of India

Virtual inauguration and hand-over of numerous projects financed by the government of India |09 April 2021
https://www.nation.sc/articles/8522/virtual-inauguration-and-hand-over-of-numerous-projects-financed-by-the-government-of-india

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The bottom line is that in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), India should not punch above its weight. It may not be a coincidence that Washington administered this firm stricture within earshot of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s highly-publicised High Level Virtual Event on Thursday with Wavel Ramkalawan, Prime Minister of Seychelles, for “the joint e-inauguration of several development assistance projects funded by India in Seychelles and the handing over of a Fast Patrol Vessel supplied by India for the use of the Seychelles Coast Guard.”
Modi dramatically called Ramkalawan the “son of India”, alluding to the ex-pastor’s Bihari family lineage. But Washington regards Ramkalawan as the doggedly nationalistic leader of an IOR island nation that is a difficult neighbour, separated by a mere 1894 kilometres of blue waters from Diego Garcia. The establishment of a top secret military asset by India in Seychelles’s Assumption Island is bad enough but Modi government’s reported plans of setting up a military base in that island nation is an entirely different proposition. (For all one knows, the media leak bears the stamp of the US intelligence.)
https://www.newsclick.in/Indian-ocean-is-not-India-ocean-says-USA?fbclid=IwAR2YdUfMGgw5tm9exngVA836gvBXyCXLTPDAiDU5FpmNdV57UBHkDZT1PiM