{"id":17139,"date":"2023-03-09T17:06:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T11:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=17139"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:21:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:51:58","slug":"encirclement-of-china","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/encirclement-of-china","title":{"rendered":"Encirclement of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, China\u2019s Foreign Minister Qin Gang accused the United States of attempting \u201cto encircle China\u201d through its Indo-Pacific strategy, taking aim at what he called \u201cexclusive blocs\u201d led by the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Chinese claims:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. \u2018Indo-Pacific Strategy\u2019 seeks to gang up to form exclusive blocs, stir up confrontation, and undermine regional integration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u2018Indo-Pacific Strategy\u2019 claims to safeguard regional security, but in fact it provokes confrontation and seeks to create an Asia-Pacific version of NATO.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The real purpose of its Indo-Pacific strategy is to encircle China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese officials have previously referred to the India, U.S., Australia, Japan Quad grouping as well as the AUKUS (Australia-U.K.-U.S.) defence pact as being key elements of this strategy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About NATO:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty (also called the Washington Treaty) of April, 1949, by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are currently <\/span><b>30 member states.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its original members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Headquarters:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Brussels, Belgium.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Quad<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) is the informal strategic dialogue between <\/span><b>India, USA, Japan and Australia.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The four nations share a common objective to ensure and support a <\/span><b>\u201cfree, open and prosperous\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indo-Pacific region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea of Quad was <\/span><b>first mooted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2007. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Quad was supposed to establish an Asian Arc of Democracy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>AUKUS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a trilateral security pact between <\/span><b>Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced in 2021 for the Indo-Pacific region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To transfer technology to build a fleet of at least eight nuclear-powered submarines armed with conventional weapons.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pact is also seen as a deterrence to China\u2019s aggression in the Pacific region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pact also includes cooperation on advanced cyber, artificial intelligence and autonomy, quantum technologies, undersea capabilities, hypersonic and counter-hypersonic, electronic warfare, innovation and information sharing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/chinese-foreign-minister-qin-gang-slams-us-indo-pacific-strategy-as-asian-nato-says-bound-to-fail\/article66590913.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>News Source: The Hindu <\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 Recently, China\u2019s Foreign Minister Qin Gang accused the United States of attempting \u201cto encircle China\u201d through its Indo-Pacific strategy, taking aim at what he called \u201cexclusive blocs\u201d led by the U.S. Chinese claims: The U.S. \u2018Indo-Pacific Strategy\u2019 seeks to gang up to form exclusive blocs, stir up confrontation, and undermine regional integration. The \u2018Indo-Pacific&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/encirclement-of-china\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Encirclement of China<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1378,918,1379],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/17139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/17139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=17139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}