{"id":845116,"date":"2025-05-01T22:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T03:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/aikeyme-in-action-india-counters-china-with-african-naval-outreach\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T22:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T03:12:37","slug":"aikeyme-in-action-india-counters-china-with-african-naval-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/aikeyme-in-action-india-counters-china-with-african-naval-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"AIKEYME in action: India counters China with African naval outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoins <\/p>\n<section data-qa=\"GenericArticle-Content\">\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/india?module=inline&#038;pgtype=article\" title data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\">India<\/span><\/a> is set to kick off its first major naval exercise with 10 African nations next month, in a move signalling its growing strategic ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Africa-India Key Maritime Engagement (AIKEYME) exercise, will take place off the coast of Dar es Salaam, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/tanzania?module=inline&#038;pgtype=article\" title data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\">Tanzania<\/span><\/a>, in mid-April amid New Delhi\u2019s deepening military outreach on a continent where China has long been a dominant player.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate the six-day exercise, which will see India co-hosting with the Tanzania People\u2019s Defence Force. The event will bring together naval forces from Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The exercise marks a major step for India\u2019s maritime diplomacy, reinforcing its role as a regional security provider while deepening strategic and economic ties with Africa, according to foreign-affairs specialist Robinder Sachdev, founder-president of the Imagindia Institute, a Delhi-based think tank.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<figure data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bitcoins Crew members on board the INS Surat, a stealth guided missile destroyer of the Indian Navy. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/03\/28\/de9ea480-aa97-452d-8ddf-622d5d35a03c_2670f90e.jpg\" title=\"bitcoins Crew members on board the INS Surat, a stealth guided missile destroyer of the Indian Navy. Photo: AFP\"><\/p><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\">Crew members on board the INS Surat, a stealth guided missile destroyer of the Indian Navy. Photo: AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">India\u2019s naval presence in the region is not entirely new. The country already operates a coastal radar surveillance network in Mauritius, Seychelles and the Maldives under its Integrated Coastal Surveillance System. But \u201cAIKEYME adds a layer of joint operational readiness\u201d to this infrastructure, enabling faster and more coordinated responses to maritime threats, Sachdev said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p> Larisa Roberie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3304352\/aikeyme-action-india-counters-china-african-naval-outreach?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is set to kick off its first major naval exercise with 10 African nations next month, in a move signalling its growing strategic ambitions. The Africa-India Key Maritime Engagement (AIKEYME) exercise, will take place off the coast of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania , in mid-April amid New Delhi\u2019s deepening military outreach on a continent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":845117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2258,143598],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-845116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-action","8":"category-aikeyme"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}