India
India will soon have its first air force base in the Indian Ocean. An 11,500-ft.-long airstrip, allowing wide-body operations, is to be completed in two months at Port Blair, Nicobar Islands. The action follows reports of Beijing setting up a surveillance post on Myanmar's tiny Coco Islands, 45 km...
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