Govt countering China's second push by navigating the sea trade route

New Delhi has also begun to consolidate its outreach via land among the Asean countries

There is a chart on the Indian Ocean that shows its three stress points along with the number of vessels which ply on those, that Vijay Sakhuja - director, National Maritime Foundation - displays. 

Through those three points, the Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Malacca and Bab el-Mandeb Strait, about 80 per cent of the volume of international oil traffic transits. The Indian Ocean, as Sakhuja points out, has begun to get crowded, with competing actors in the race to build ports, since this Ocean is now the main international traffic lane for transport of gas, oil and coal. It