India is Serious About Disengaging From China

Two quick hits.
First up, Bloomberg, August 13:

China’s Huawei, ZTE Set To Be Shut Out of India’s 5G Trials 

China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. are set to be kept out of India’s plans to roll out its 5G networks as relations between the two countries hit a four decade low following deadly border clashes.

The South Asian nation will apply investment rules amended on July 23 that cite national security concerns to restrict bidders from nations it shares land borders with to keep out the companies, people familiar with the issue said, asking not to be identified citing rules for speaking with the media....

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And from AFP via the South China Morning Post, August 13:
India Offers Maldives Half A Billion Reasons To Distance Itself From China

• The US$500 million pledge is part of New Delhi’s push to regain influence in the archipelago nation of 340,000 people
• The Maldives borrowed billions of dollars from Beijing and hired Chinese firms for infrastructure projects under its previous president

India on Thursday pledged US$500 million to build bridges and causeways in the Maldives, as New Delhi seeks to counter growing Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean.

The Maldives  borrowed billions of dollars from Beijing and hired Chinese firms for infrastructure projects under previous President Abdulla Yameen.

This stoked concerns in India and the West that China was saddling countries in  Asia and beyond with unsustainable debts while expanding its sphere of influence.

Under the new Maldives government, India has sought to regain influence in the archipelago nation of 340,000 people and 1,192 islands located on major East-West shipping lanes....

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