Joint India-Japan-United States wargames April-end

Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta will leave shortly on a visit to China, even as the Indian Navy is gearing up for the Malabar naval exercises with the US and Japan to be held at the end of this month. The Malabar exercises — which will be trilateral this year — will be held off the Japanese coast, defence sources confirmed. In another development, Admiral Mehta also met visiting US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Admiral Mehta will participate in a symposium being held in the Chinese port city of Qingdao that will be on the theme of “harmonious” seas. The symposium is being organised on the occasion of the international fleet review that will be held in Qingdao. Indian naval ships from its eastern fleet will also participate in the international fleet review at Qingdao.

The visit of Navy Chief to China comes just two months after a controversy wherein the Chinese media had accused an Indian submarine of stalking a Chinese naval destroyer vessel in the Gulf of Aden in February.

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