India will play key role in countering China: US Navy chief

India's role in countering China is going to be very important in the future, believes US Chief of Naval Operations Adam Mike Gilday. He said on Saturday that India will therefore be an important partner of America in the future. According to the report of Nikkei Asia, Adam Mike Gilday said these things at a personal seminar organized by the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Thursday.

During this, he said that India gives problems to China from two sides. India now forces China to look not only towards the South China Sea and Taiwan. He further said that I have spent more time traveling to India than any other country in the past, also because the USA has started seeing India as a strategic partner for itself in the future.

Referring to his five-day visit to India last October, he said that the Indian Ocean battlefield is becoming increasingly important for us. If the facts are seen properly, then it will be known that at present there has been some problem between India and China on their borders. It is definitely very important strategically.