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Tuesday 3 January 2023

COUNTERING CHINESE MULTI DOMAIN WAR

 Southeast Asia nations boosting submarine orders

 

 

The growing acquisition of submarines by Southeast Asian countries is driven by China. The Philippine military is beefing up its presence in the South China Sea following reports of new landfill work and mooring by Chinese ships in the area, potentially complicating President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s visit to Beijing starting Jan. 3.

 

Chinese fishing boats, which are militia ships in effect, carried out landfill work at four reef sites around the Spratly Islands.

 

Good news for India.

 

 

Taiwan to extend compulsory military service on China threat

 

 

Taiwan has been gradually shifting from a conscript military to a volunteer-dominated professional force, but China's growing assertiveness towards the island it claims as its own,Taiwan will extend compulsory military service to one year from four months from 2024 due to the rising threat the island faces from China. As China ramps up military, diplomatic and economic pressure on Taiwan to assert its sovereignty almost daily Chinese air force is fling over Taiwan. Tsai said the current military system, including training reservists, is inefficient and insufficient to cope with China's rising military threat, if it launched a rapid attack on the island. Conscripts will undergo more intense training, including shooting exercises, combat instruction used by U.S. forces, and operating more powerful weapons including Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and anti-tank missiles.

 

 

SOFT POWER

 

 

India’s prestigious chain of technology schools set for international expansion

 

 

These institutions have laid the academic foundation for the chief executives of some of the world’s iconic firms such as Google, Twitter and IBM. Now the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), a chain of premier institutions first set up in the 1950s, is aiming for an ambitious international expansion.

 


 

 

 

Tanzania, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Malaysia are three locations these government-funded but autonomous institutes are targeting in the first phase, with Egypt, Qatar and Thailand also under consideration.

 

This is a step in right direction and will enhance India's soft power at international level.

 

 

INTERNAL SECURITY

 

 

Infrastructure Boom

 

 

India is in the midst of a building boom. It is seeking to modernize roads, rail networks and ports in attempt to vie with China as a manufacturing hub. With China’s construction sector slowing and the US and Europe likely heading into recessions, India has emerged as a consumer of global steel demand. India, overtook the US to become the world’s No. 2 steel consumer after China a couple of years ago. “The nation-building phase of any economy requires a lot of steel and commodities and it could boost the country’s steel consumption to over 200 million tons by 2030.

 

India produces the vast majority of the steel it uses, but it’s also being forced to import more to meet the surge in demand. Inward shipments rose 15% in April through October from a year earlier to 3.1 million tons, according to government.


 

Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel India, a joint venture between India’s Mittal family and the Japanese producer, has plans to more than triple capacity to 30 million tons in the coming decade. South Korean steelmaker Posco Holdings and Gautam Adani, are also exploring setting up mills in the country.

 

China accounted for more than a quarter of imports in October. The quality of some of the steel coming in is “sub-standard,” Steel Association, has requested authorities look into the matter. “

 

Despite the strong growth, India is still less than a seventh of China’s 914 million tons. How fast India can narrow the gap will depend on the success of PM Modi’s construction roll-out. $1.4 trillion of funding will be needed for the National Infrastructure Pipeline through 2025.

 

 

Domestic manufacturing of high-end components Technological Compnents

 

 

The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) is working on an incentive scheme, with a likely financial outlay of around Rs 10,000 crore to Rs 12,000 crore, to promote domestic manufacturing of high-end components that could go into products such as smartphones, servers and personal computers.

 

The objective of the components incentive scheme is to develop a complete ecosystem of electronics manufacturing in India. The move may further help attract global majors such as Apple to deepen local production.




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