India Marks itself as a strategic defence partner to South-Asian Countries in both Arms and Ammunitions and Cooperation. This challenges the USA and China’s long established dominance in South Asia.

As New Delhi’s defense export ambitions grow, the south east sees India as the best viable option for weapons purchasing as India offers more viable cooperation and less politically encumbered options.

India delieverd it’s BrahMos Supersonic Cruise missile to Phillipines in 2022, and now, the deal with Indonesia regarding the same system is in the final talks. Indian officials claim that Inda further plans to expand it’s defense network even into Vietnam by exporting Indian weapons to them.

What fuels this preference is that China’s Defense Deals are largely just transactional while US arms deals come strangled with political links, only India offers the more cooperation based model. India too has it’s own interests but it makes sure that its intersts do not overshadow the other countries’ interests, making India appear a better neutral Partner.

Coverage by South China Morning Post describe these Indian Arms deal to Indonesia and Phillipines not just simply as a deal, but as a “Declaration of India’s Strategic Arrival” in the region which has been long dominated militarily by USA and Politically Constrained by China.

So guys, we can say We have arrived in the game, A new country has joined this great game, The game has now become from ‘The Big Two’ to the ‘The Big Three’.

Rest is on time and on the preference of South Asian Countries which will decide who among the three will emerge out victorious and their regions’s fate. i wish all the best to them and hope for their wellbeing, just as we all should.

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