China also has territorial disputes with Japan in the East China Sea. Beijing has built artificial islands and military installations in the South China Sea.
India, the US and several other world powers have been talking about the need to ensure a free, open and thriving Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China's rising military manoeuvring in the resource-rich region.Ĭhina claims nearly all of the disputed South China Sea, though Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam all claim parts of it. "There was a discussion on some current, some pressing issues like the security situation in the Indo-Pacific, the consequences of the Ukraine conflict," he added. There was also a very open discussion on how India and New Zealand together will shape the larger region, the Indo-Pacific region, he said.
"The sum and substance of it was really an understanding that we should play to each other's strengths, which specifically meant business, education, technology, digital world, agricultural trade, talent, and most of all people to people connect because that's at the heart of both our societies," he said. He said a large part of his conversation with Mahuta went to strengthening our bilateral relationship. "I think we do recognise today that countries like India and New Zealand have a particular responsibility in forging a post-colonial order, which is fairer, which is more equitable, and which will provide the prosperity and stability to large parts of the world with which we are historically linked," he said. "I see this, not just as a visit, but really an endeavour by two countries very respectful of each other's traditions and culture, very conscious of their diverse nature, to forge a more contemporary relationship, and a more contemporary one," Jaishankar said at a joint press interaction with Mahuta.
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