India Boosts Ties With Oman, Malaysia, Seychelles And Sri Lanka In Major Diplomatic Push – Analysis

The Indian Ocean rarely witnesses a week as packed as the last one, but the activity did not come out of thin air. India’s naval diplomacy, often seen in the past as incremental or understated, suddenly revealed the scale of the foundation laid over years of humanitarian work, port access negotiations, and quiet diplomatic capital-building. What became visible was not a flurry of last-minute activism but the crest of a long strategic wave. At the heart of that wave stood Kuala Lumpur—India’s first...