Publication

10 May 2016

This backgrounder explores three issues: 1) the South Pacific region's growing strategic significance to India; 2) the advantages that India enjoys over China in the area, regardless of its outsider status; and 3) the status of India’s relationship with Papua New Guinea, particularly in the wake of President Modi's recent visit.

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Author Niranjan Chandrashekhar Oak
Series IDSA Backgrounder
Publisher Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
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