zealand the us and that alliance has had a checkered history there was a time when new zealand was frozen out of that alliance for for a bit because new zealand insisted that they will not allow anything with the word nuclear on it in its waters whether nuclear weapon or nuclear power so the alliance then said the americans said that nobody can put these conditions if you're part of the alliance so you better be your membership had better remain frozen then new zealand as usual they made a compromise the other side made a compromise and they arrived at a conveniently hypocritical formulation saying that america as long as american ships that come in they do not carry nuclear weapons new zealand will allow them in their waters how did the americans ensure that americans said all right we never specify whether a vessel has nuclear weapons or not so if we haven't specified how do you know a vessel is nuclear weapons or not so we will not specify you presume we will not say that these ships have or these submarines have nuclear weapons because you don't know you don't have to stop them it does not run contrary to your own politics and your own laws so that is how new zealand was brought back in so australia new zealand america are already already in this tight security alliance then as i told you there are these many others america in fact even has a mutual defense assistance agreement that persists with pakistan even yet pakistan is still one of the non-nato key non-leader allies of the us so in all this mishmash one more acronym has now come in now everybody knows and anybody know who knows a little bit of the of how the navies work or how marine power works or anybody who knows how the strategic power is now flaunted in the world and how it's countered knows that today's battle today's cold war if you might say is on the seas naval power determines a country's status or an alliance's status or clout also how far can you exercise your enable naval power from your own shores because america is very far china is here the new polarization is america and china now china china has its areas of opportunity in its neighborhood it has claims on taiwan which it considers as a part of its own country it's like most countries in the world including including america in principle except the one china principle whatever that means and similarly china has maritime territorial claims that over over japan indonesia the philippines a lot of countries in the region now area which is china's area of opportunity and which gives china all all these targets is also china's area of vulnerability because a lot of the chinese chinese shipping passes through malacca street now morocco state the last island in the nicobar group is somewhere near where malacca state begins market state is very narrow it can be easily blocked by naval forces of countries hostile to china that is why the chinese are paranoid about the quad because you know india owns nicobar islands and indian navy is the preeminent navy this side of malacca straits so that is one second taiwan strait that is again a narrow stretch of the sea between china mainland and taiwan if the chinese have to move towards taiwan
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