you see china building port facilities, pakistan, sri lanka, more of the security presence in sri lanka, cocoa island facilities, and you see over the last year, the chinese naval base, but it can base aircraft carriers, the chinese are quite interested in becoming a major maritime players in the indian ocean as well. you still have to contend with the fact that china has big deployments within tibet, and a border dispute. if you look at the indian/china border, territory claimed by china, ongoing incursions' into this area. again, if you are india, you are becoming a world power, you want your seat as an major player in world affairs, you have to be concerned that the chinese are encroaching on your territory and might complicate things for you if you are concerned about lines of communication. what has india done since the 90s to content with this emerging strategic environment? number one is it is spending more on defense, quite a bit more. particularly more on the maritime and air dimensions, looking at possibly 3 carrier strike groups as well as nuclear submarines, and also it had