China aims to limit India’s strategic relation with US: Report

A STATE department report has said that China perceives growing India as a rival to limit its strategic relation with the US.

The report further cautioned that Beijing is moving ahead its plans to displace the US as the world’s superpower. The detailed policy document has highlighted that China is undermining the security, autonomy and economic interests of many countries in the Asia Pacific region.

The report further added: ‘China perceives rising India as a rival and seeks to impel it to accommodate Beijing’s ambitions by engaging economically while constraining New Delhi’s strategic partnership with the US, Japan, Australia and its relations with other democracies’.

‘China is undermining the security, autonomy, and economic interests of many others in the region — such as member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including those in the vital Mekong Region, as well as the nations of the Pacific Islands,’ the report added.

The 70-page report states that awareness has been growing in the US - and in nations around the world - that the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has triggered a new era of great-power competition.

‘Yet few discern the pattern in China’s inroads within every region of the world, much less the specific form of dominance to which the party aspires,’ said the report.

‘In the face of the China challenge, the US must secure freedom,’ said the report.

China, it said, seeks to diminish US influence by fostering a sense in the region’s nations that China’s dominance is inevitable.

‘The Trump administration achieved a fundamental break with conventional wisdom. It concluded that the CCP’s resolute conduct and self-professed goals require the US and other countries to revise assumptions and develop a new strategic doctrine to address the primacy and magnitude of the China challenge,’ according to the document.