China is trying to use money power to limit India's influence in the Indian Ocean region - this is what papers submitted at a recent conference of senior police officers said.
By providing huge amounts of money in the name of loans for developmental works in Southeast and South Asia, China wants to reduce India's influence in the region, a conference of directors-general (DGP) and inspectors-general of police (IGP) was told.
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), infrastructure-related investments in India's neighbouring countries through easy loans, hot borders and Line of Actual Control (LAC) are some of the tools Beijing has been using effectively, the papers say.
"All this is being done with the aim to keep India constrained and occupied in facing the resultant challenges, force resolution of bilateral issues on its own terms, modulate India's growth story, leaving it (China) free to achieve its aim of becoming not only Asia's pre-eminent power but a global superpower," according to the papers.
The three-day annual conference was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and about 350 top police officers of the country.
(With PTI inputs)
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